Thrasyllos (general)
Thrasyllos ( Greek Θράσυλλος Thrasyllos ;. * 450 BC .; † .. 406 BC in Athens ), also Thrasylos was a Attic strategist . In several battles during the Peloponnesian War he commanded fleets or individual contingents of the Attic League . As a politician he was close to the war party around Cleophon and was at least at times an opponent of Alcibiades . After the Battle of the Arginus he was sentenced to death by the popular assembly and executed.
The historian Thucydides first mentions Thrasyllos as a simple hoplite of the Attic fleet in Samos, where he was elected strategist after the oligarchical coup in Athens. Together with his colleagues Thrasybulus , Diomedon and Leon , he organized the democratic resistance on the island, through whose pressure the return to democracy was enforced a little later in Athens .
As a result, Thrasyllos was one of Athens' leading strategists and contributed significantly to the sea victories of Kynossema and Abydos . Back in Attica , he resisted a push of the Spartan king Agis I. from. Sent to Ionia, however, it failed in 409 with an attack on Ephesus .
After this setback, Thrasyllos went back to the Hellespont , where he submitted to the command of Alcibiades. With this he defeated the Spartans and allied Persians at the end of 409 in the land battle near Abydos and in 408 off Chalcedon on the Bosporus .
Back in Athens at the beginning of 407, Thrasyllos was not re-elected, but after the overthrow of Alcibiades as a result of the defeat in the Battle of Notion he was again entrusted with the office of strategist for 406.
After the enclosure of the Attic fleet under the command of Konons in the port of Mytilene , he was one of the eight generals who led the relief fleet to the island of Lesbos . In the battle of the Arginus that followed, Thrasyllos was one of the frontline commanders, commanding the right wing.
After a victorious battle, he managed to divide the fleet in the general council, of which only a smaller part was commissioned with the rescue of the castaways and the recovery of the dead under the command of Thrasybulus and Theramenes , while the majority went to Mytilene to relieve the trapped.
After returning to Athens, Thrasyllos was charged with his colleagues in the Arginusen trial for failure to rescue the dead, sentenced to death and executed .
swell
- Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War
- Xenophon: Hellenika
- Diodorus: library
- Plutarch: Alcibiades
literature
- Iain Spence: Historical Dictionary of Ancient Greek Warfare . Scarecrow Press 2002, ISBN 0-8108-4099-5 , p. 362 ( excerpt (Google) )
Individual evidence
- ^ Thucydides, VIII 75-76.
- ↑ Thucydides, VIII 100.1, 104.3, 105.2; Diodorus , Library , XIII 101f.
- ↑ Xenophon , Hellenika , I 1.33.
- ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika , I 2.
- ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika , I 2.16-3.7; Diodor, Library XIII 64-66; Plutarch , Alkibiades 29,2ff.
- ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika , I 4.10 and 5.16; Diodorus, Library XIII 74.1.
- ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika , I 6.29f .; Diodorus, Bibliothek , XIII 98.3.
- ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika , I 6.35f and I 7.29.
- ↑ Xenophon, Hellenika , I 7.1ff; Diodorus, Library , XIII 101f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thrasyllos |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Thrasyless |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Athenian general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 450 BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 406 BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Athens |