Thrasybulus

Family: Athenians · Role: statesman and general · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 29

In Book 1, Chapter 29, Thrasybulus, identified as the son of Lycus, set out from Thebes with sixty men, overthrew the Thirty Tyrants and persuaded the divided Athenians to reconcile and live on friendly terms. In Book 3, Chapter 5, Pausanias (son of Plistoanax) is described as leading an army into Attica ostensibly against Thrasybulus and the Athenians.

In Book 6, Chapter 2, a Thrasybulus identified as the son of Æneas and of the Iamid family practised divination for the Mantineans against the Lacedæmonians under Agis (son of Eudamidas). Book 6 also records statues of Agathinus, son of Thrasybulus, and says that Thrasybulus of Elis erected a statue of Pyrrhus (son of Æacides) in Altis.

In Book 9, Chapter 11, Thrasybulus, again identified as the son of Lycus, and the Athenians put down the Thirty Tyrants after returning from exile from Thebes. They offered colossal statues of Athene and Hercules at the temple of Hercules.

Relationship record

Life events

• Thrasybulus overthrew the Thirty Tyrants and reconciled the factional Athenians.(Book 1 · Chapter 29 · 📍 Thebes)
  • “Starting from Thebes with only sixty men he put down the Thirty Tyrants, and persuaded the Athenians who were in factions to be reconciled to one another and live on friendly terms.”
• Thrasybulus practised divination for the Mantineans against the Lacedæmonians under Agis.(Book 6 · Chapter 2)
  • With: Agis (son of Eudamidas)
  • “Thrasybulus, the son of Æneas of the family of the Iamidæ, who practised divination for the Mantineans against the Lacedæmonians under Agis the son of King Eudamidas”
• The Mantineans and Arcadians defeated the Lacedæmonians by surrounding them.(Book 8 · Chapter 10 · 📍 Mantinea)
  • With: Podares Aratus the son of Clinias Lydiades Leocydes Agis (son of Eudamidas)
  • “centre. And Aratus according to preconcerted arrangement with the Arcadians fell back (he and his army) when the Lacedæmonians pressed them hard, and as they fell back they formed the shape of a crescent. And Agis and the Lacedæmonians were keen for victory, and en masse pressed fiercely on Aratus and his division. And they were followed by the Lacedæmonians on the wings, who thought it would be a great stepping stone to victory to rout Aratus and his division. But the Arcadians meanwhile stole upon their flanks, and the Lacedæmonians being surrounded lost most of their men, and their king Agis the son of Eudamidas fell. And the Mantineans said that Poseidon appeared helping”
• Thrasybulus and the Athenians overthrew the Thirty Tyrants.(Book 9 · Chapter 11 · 📍 Thebes)
  • “when Thrasybulus the son of Lycus and the Athenians with him put down the Thirty Tyrants”

Book 1 · Chapter 29

• parent: Lycus “first of Thrasybulus the son of Lycus”

Book 3 · Chapter 5

• enemies with Pausanias (son of Plistoanax) “This is that Pausanias who led an army into Attica, ostensibly against Thrasybulus and the Athenians”

Book 6 · Chapter 2

• parent: Æneas “the seer of Elis, Thrasybulus, the son of Æneas of the family of the Iamidæ”

Book 6 · Chapter 13

• child: Agathinus (Thrasybulus is Agathinus's father.) “there are statues of Agathinus the son of Thrasybulus”

Book 6 · Chapter 14

• with Pyrrhus (son of Æacides) (Thrasybulus erected Pyrrhus's statue.) “Thrasybulus of Elis erected his statue in Altis.”

Book 8 · Chapter 10

• parent: Æneas (Æneas is Thrasybulus's father.) “They had also with them the seer from Elis, Thrasybulus the son of Æneas of the family of the Iamidæ, who prophesied victory for the Mantineans, and himself took part in the action.”

Book 9 · Chapter 11

• parent: Lycus “when Thrasybulus the son of Lycus and the Athenians with him put down the Thirty Tyrants”
• with Hercules (Thrasybulus offered a statue of Hercules to the temple.) “And when Thrasybulus the son of Lycus and the Athenians with him put down the Thirty Tyrants, (they had started from Thebes on their return from exile), they offered to this temple of Hercules colossal statues of Athene and Hercules in Pentelican marble, by Alcamenes.”
• with Athene (Thrasybulus offered a statue of Athene to the temple.) “And when Thrasybulus the son of Lycus and the Athenians with him put down the Thirty Tyrants, (they had started from Thebes on their return from exile), they offered to this temple of Hercules colossal statues of Athene and Hercules in Pentelican marble, by Alcamenes.”

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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.