Erasinides

Family: Athenians · Role: general · First appears: Book 1, section 6, part 1/2

In Book 1, section 6, Erasinides served as one of the Athenian generals: he is named with Leon among the generals accompanying Conon, and later as a support behind Diomedon. After the generals returned to Athens, the home authorities deposed them, with Conon excepted.

On their arrival, Archidemus fined Erasinides and accused him before the Dicastery of appropriating public money from the Hellespont; the court sentenced him to imprisonment. In the proceedings against the generals, Theramenes and Thrasybulus undertook to accuse them, and Callixenus was persuaded to accuse them in the senate. At a later date, the eight generals were condemned, and the six who were in Athens were put to death.

Relationship record

Life events

• The returning generals were deposed by the home authorities.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Pericles Diomedon Lysias Aristocrates Thrasylus
  • “All the above-named generals, with the exception of Conon, were presently deposed by the home authorities.”
• Archidemus fined Erasinides and accused him of appropriating public money and misconduct.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Athens)
  • With: Archidemus
  • “On their arrival Archidemus, the leader of the democracy at that date, who had charge of the two obol fund, inflicted a fine on Erasinides, and accused him before the Dicastery of having appropriated money derived from the Hellespont, which belonged to the people.”
• Erasinides was sentenced to imprisonment.(Book 1, section 7, part 1/2 · 📍 Dicastery)
  • “the court sentenced him to imprisonment.”
• The eight generals were condemned, and the six who were in Athens were put to death.(Book 1, section 7, part 2/2)
  • With: Diomedon Thrasylus
  • “At a later date the balloting was made, and by the votes recorded the eight generals were condemned, and the six who were in Athens were put to death.”

Book 1, section 6, part 1/2

• with Conon (Erasinides was with Conon.) “and with him two of the ten generals, Leon and Erasinides.”
• with Leon (They were named together as two generals accompanying Conon.) “and with him two of the ten generals, Leon and Erasinides.”

Book 1, section 6, part 2/2

• with Diomedon (Erasinides supported Diomedon.) “immediately in rear of Aristocrates and Diomedon respectively, as their supports, came Pericles and Erasinides.”

Book 1, section 7, part 1/2

• with Archidemus (Archidemus fined and accused Erasinides.) “On their arrival Archidemus, the leader of the democracy at that date, who had charge of the two obol fund, inflicted a fine on Erasinides, and accused him before the Dicastery of having appropriated money derived from the Hellespont, which belonged to the people.”
• with Timocrates (The proposal concerned the other five generals, including Erasinides.) “Timocrates then proposed that the other five generals should be put in custody and handed over to the public assembly.”
• with Theramenes (The generals said they had assigned the rescue duty to Theramenes and Tharysbulus.) “Their explanation of the occurrences was that, in order to be free to sail against the enemy themselves, they had devolved the duty of picking up the shipwrecked crews upon certain competent captains of men-of-war, who had themselves been generals in their time, to wit Theramenes and Tharysbulus, and others of like stamp.”
• with Callixenus (Callixenus was persuaded to accuse the generals.) “Then came the festival of the Aparturia, with its family gatherings of fathers and kinsfolk. Accordingly the party of Theramenes procured numbers of people clad in black apparel, and close-shaven, who were to go in and present themselves before the public assembly in the middle of the festival, as relatives, presumably, of the men who had perished; and they persuaded Callixenus to accuse the generals in the senate.”

Book 1, section 7, part 2/2

• with Thrasybulus (Thrasybulus undertook to accuse the generals.) “Among the taxiarchs left behind, two were Thrasybulus and Theramenes, the men who in the late meeting of this assembly undertook to accuse the generals.”
• with Theramenes (Theramenes undertook to accuse the generals.) “Among the taxiarchs left behind, two were Thrasybulus and Theramenes, the men who in the late meeting of this assembly undertook to accuse the generals.”

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