Theramenes
historical figure · 5 works · 11 mentions · 48 anchored passages
Theramenes son of Hagnon · Theramenes the Lacedaemonian · Theramenes the son of Hagnon
in the texts
History of the Peloponnesian War
Lacedaemonian officer charged with delivering the combined Peloponnesian and Sicilian reinforcement fleet to Astyochus.
and both squadrons being committed to Theramenes the Lacedaemonian to take to Astyochus the admiral, put in to Lerus first, the island before Miletus.
When Hermocrates, the Syracusan commander, objected to this, (for Theramenes, inasmuch as he was not admiral, but only sailing with them to deliver up the fleet to Astyochus, was easy on the subject of pay,) there was fixed, notwithstanding, a sum [for the whole fleet] larger by five ships than three oboli a man per day.
and, consequently, while Theramenes was yet there, they concluded another, which was to the following effect:
Hellenica
An Athenian commander who brings reinforcements to the fleet and is later left in charge of the garrison at Chrysopolis.
they also left there as a garrison thirty ships and two of the generals, Theramenes and Eumachus, to have charge of the fort, to attend to the outgoing ships, and to harm the enemy in any other way they could.
When they had arrived there and he was on the point of putting out to sea for battle, Theramenes sailed in from Macedonia with a reinforcement of twenty ships, and at the same time Thrasybulus arrived from Thasos with twenty more, both of them having been engaged in collecting money.
Among the captains who were left behind were both Thrasybulus and Theramenes, the man who accused the generals at the former meeting of the Assembly.
Constitution of the Athenians
Politically complex statesman, involved in the Four Hundred, its overthrow, and later destroyed by the Thirty for opposing their excesses
but about Theramenes, because the governments of his time were turbulent, the judgement is disputed.
Among these were Archinus and Anytus and Cleitophon and Phormisius and many others, and the foremost was Theramenes.
After them, of the others, Theramenes son of Hagnon, and of the people Cleophon the lyre-maker, who first provided the two-obol dole;
Tusculan Disputations
Athenian statesman condemned to death by the Thirty Tyrants, who drank poison with composure.
How Theramenes delights me!
For Socrates goes into the same prison and, a few years later, to the same cup, by the same crime of judges as Theramenes had suffered from the tyrants.
But why do I commemorate Socrates or Theramenes, men eminent in the renown of virtue and wisdom, when a certain Spartan, whose name has not even been recorded, so despised death that, when he was being led to it, condemned by the ephors, and was of cheerful and glad countenance, and a certain enemy had said to him, "Do you scorn the laws of Lycurgus?
Letters
Athenian slanderer accused by Demosthenes of spreading abusive rumors against him and of gross personal vices; the target of an extended character attack in one of the letters.
I would not have written this had I not wished to stir in you the recollection of the vices that attach to him.
I hear that Theramenes has uttered various slanderous statements concerning me and in particular that he taunts me with being ill-fated.
He is an enemy to his own parents but a friend to Pausanias the whoremonger, and though he swaggers like a man he allows himself to be used like a woman.