Thrasybulus

Family: Athenians · Role: general · First appears: Book 1, section 4

In Book 1, Thrasybulus reduced Thasos after it revolted to Lacedaemon. The Athenians then chose him, though absent, alongside Alcibiades and Conon as general. He and Theramenes were ordered to take forty-seven ships to aid the disabled fleet and recover shipwrecked crews; later, they were among those who undertook to accuse the generals.

In Book 2, Thrasybulus led about a thousand followers from Phyle to Piraeus at night. As the Thirty’s forces advanced, his men withdrew to Munychia, then defeated the enemy and pursued them to level ground. The victors returned the dead under a truce and refrained from stripping their fellow-citizens.

In 389 B.C., Thrasybulus was sent with forty ships to check Athens’ rivals. At the Hellespont he reconciled Medocus and Seuthes, making them allies of Athens, and at Byzantium converted the oligarchy into a democracy. At Aspendus, local people burst into his quarters at night and killed him in his tent.