10_36253_978-88-5518-612-4_06.pdf

• Language: English
• Published: Firenze University Press 2022

We analyze the political actions of Theramenes as described by Thucydides (during the coup of 411 BCE) and Xenophon (under the Thirty, 404-403 BCE) to map the features that converged to make him a paradigmatic character in the ancient Greek political imaginary. Xenophon, at least, may have been an e...