Antiphon

First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5

Life events

The assembly ratified the new constitution without opposition, establishing the Four Hundred.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Pisander Phrynichus Theramenes
- “The assembly ratified the proposed constitution, without a single opposing voice, and was then dissolved; after which the Four Hundred were brought into the council chamber in the following way.”
The Four Hundred took power, replacing the Council and ruling the city by force.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Pisander Phrynichus Theramenes
- “Upon the Council withdrawing in this way without venturing any objection, and the rest of the citizens making no movement, the Four Hundred entered the council chamber”
The Four Hundred killed, imprisoned, and banished people they considered convenient to remove.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5 · 📍 Athens)
- With: Pisander Phrynichus Theramenes
- “putting to death some men, though not many, whom they thought it convenient to remove, and imprisoning and banishing others.”
The Four Hundred sought peace with Agis and sent envoys to Lacedaemon to negotiate a treaty.(Book 8 · Chapter 25 · Part 5 · 📍 Decelea)
- With: Pisander Phrynichus Theramenes
- “After this the Four Hundred persevering sent another embassy to Agis, and now meeting with a better reception, at his suggestion dispatched envoys to Lacedaemon to negotiate a treaty, being desirous of making peace.”

with Pisander (Both were involved in putting down the democracy.) “The man who moved this resolution was Pisander, who was throughout the chief ostensible agent in putting down the democracy. But he who concerted the whole affair, and prepared the way for the catastrophe, and who had given the greatest thought to the matter, was Antiphon”

Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.