Editing Theramenes (section)

==Historical record==
[[File:Pnyx-berg2.png|thumb|The [[Pnyx]] with speaker's platform in Athens, upon which Theramenes and other politicians stood while speaking.]]
No ancient biographies of Theramenes are known, but his life and actions are relatively well documented, due to the extensive treatment given him in several surviving works. The Attic orator [[Lysias]] deals with him at length in several of his speeches, albeit in a very hostile manner.<ref>Perrin, ''The Rehabilitation of Theramenes'', 649–50</ref><ref>Lysias, ''Against Eratosthenes'', [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0154:speech=12:section=63 63] and following.</ref> Theramenes also appears in several ancient narrative histories: [[Thucydides]]' [[History of the Peloponnesian War|account]] includes the beginnings of Theramenes' career, and [[Xenophon]], [[Hellenica|picking up where Thucydides left off]], gives a detailed account of several episodes from Theramenes career including a sympathetic and vivid description of his last actions and words;<ref>Andrewes, ''The Arginousai Trial'', 114–15</ref> [[Diodorus Siculus]], probably drawing his account from [[Ephorus]] at most points, provides another account that varies widely from Xenophon's at several points.<ref>Harding, ''The Theramenes Myth'', 106–8</ref> Theramenes also appears in several other sources, which, although they do not provide as many narrative details, have been used to illuminate the political disputes which surrounded Theramenes' life and memory.