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.
After this convention Theramenes gave up the fleet to Astyochus, and sailing away in a small boat was lost at sea.
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.
After this the several generals spoke in their own defence (though briefly, for they were not granted the hearing prescribed by the law) and stated what they had done, saying that they themselves undertook to sail against the enemy and that they assigned the duty of recovering the shipwrecked to certain of the captains who were competent men and had been generals in the past,—Theramenes, Thrasybul …
Constitution of the Athenians
Politically complex statesman, involved in the Four Hundred, its overthrow, and later destroyed by the Thirty for opposing their excesses
Those chiefly responsible for the overthrow were Aristocrates and Theramenes, who were not satisfied with what the Four Hundred were doing;
but about Theramenes, because the governments of his time were turbulent, the judgement is disputed.
The oligarchy, then, was established in this way, in the archonship of Callias, about a hundred years after the expulsion of the tyrants, those chiefly responsible being Pisander, Antiphon, and Theramenes, men both of good birth and reputed to excel in understanding and judgement.
Tusculan Disputations
Athenian statesman condemned to death by the Thirty Tyrants, who drank poison with composure.
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?
How Theramenes delights me!
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 hear that Theramenes has uttered various slanderous statements concerning me and in particular that he taunts me with being ill-fated.
As for this man, If some day I return and am restored to my rights, I shall plan to have a talk with him about the drunken abuse he directs at me and at you, and I believe that, even if he is devoid of shame, I shall render him more self-restrained.
I would not have written this had I not wished to stir in you the recollection of the vices that attach to him.