Thibron
historical figure · 2 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages
in the texts
Anabasis
Lacedaemonian commander preparing war against Tissaphernes and seeking the mercenary army.
they said that the Lacedaemonians had resolved to undertake a campaign against Tissaphernes, that Thibron had set sail to wage the war, and that he wanted this army;
He likewise said, making a great secret of it, that he had heard from Polynicus that if Xenophon should fall into the hands of the Lacedaemonians, he would certainly be put to death by Thibron.
His friends in the camp, however, came to him and begged him not to depart until he should lead the army away and turn it over to Thibron.
Hellenica
Lacedaemonian governor sent to protect the Greek cities of Asia, later condemned and banished for allowing his troops to plunder allied territory.
Thibron accordingly went back home, and was condemned and banished;
On the other hand, there were some weak cities which Thibron did actually capture by storm;
Accordingly, the Lacedaemonians sent them Thibron as governor, giving him an army made up of a thousand emancipated Helots and four thousand of the other Peloponnesians.