Editing Theramenes (section)

==In command==
[[Image:Battle of Cyzicus.svg|thumb|right|'''Athenian naval strategy at the battle of Cyzicus:''' Alcibiades' decoy force draws the Spartan fleet out into open water, and then turns about to engage them. Squadrons commanded by Thrasybulus and Theramenes move in behind the Spartan ships, to cut off their line of retreat, trapping the Spartans between three groups of Athenian warships; a much larger force than they had initially expected to engage.]]

Under the government of the 5,000 and under the democracy that replaced it in 410 BC, Theramenes served as a general for several years, commanding fleets in the Aegean Sea and the [[Hellespont]]. Shortly after the rise of the government of the 5,000, Theramenes set sail to the Hellespont to join [[Thrasybulus]] and the generals elected by the army at Samos.<ref>Kagan, ''The Peloponnesian War'', 401</ref> After the Athenian victory at [[Battle of Abydos|Abydos]], he took thirty [[triremes]] to attack the rebels on Euboea, who were building a causeway to [[Boeotia]] to provide land access to their island. Unable to stop the construction, he plundered the territory of several rebellious cities,<ref>Kagan, ''The Peloponnesian War'', 409</ref> then travelled around the Aegean suppressing oligarchies and raising funds from various cities of the Athenian Empire.<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Library'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+13.47.1 13.47]</ref> He then took his fleet to [[Macedon]], where he assisted the Macedonian king [[Archelaus I of Macedon|Archelaus]] in his siege of [[Pydna]], but, with that siege dragging on, he sailed on to join Thrasybulus in [[Thrace]].<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Library'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+13.49.1 13.49]</ref> The fleet soon moved on from there to challenge [[Mindarus]]' fleet, which had seized the city of [[Cyzicus]]. Theramenes commanded one wing of the Athenian fleet in the resulting [[Battle of Cyzicus]], a decisive Athenian victory. In that battle, Alcibiades (who had been recalled from exile by the fleet at Samos shortly after the coup) led a decoy force that drew the Spartan fleet out into open water, while Thrasybulus and Theramenes, each commanding an independent squadron, cut off the Spartans' retreat. Mindarus was forced to flee to a nearby beach, and vicious fighting ensued on land as the Athenians attempted to drag off the Spartan ships. Thrasybulus and Alcibiades kept the Spartans occupied while Theramenes joined up with the nearby Athenian land forces and then hurried to the rescue; his arrival precipitated a total Athenian victory, in which all the Spartan ships were captured.<ref>For the battle, see Diodorus, ''Library'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+13.50.1 13.50–51] and Xenophon, ''Hellenica'', [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Xen.+Hell.+1.1.1#anch5 1.1.11–18]; for a modern synthesis, see Kagan, ''The Ancient Greeks'', 411–13.</ref> In the wake of this victory, the Athenians captured Cyzicus and constructed a fort at [[Üsküdar#Chrysopolis|Chrysopolis]], from which they extracted a customs duty of one tenth on all ships passing through the [[Bosporus]]. Theramenes and another general remained at this fort with a garrison of thirty ships to oversee the collection of the duty.<ref>Xenophon, ''Hellenica'' [[s:Hellenica/Book 1/Chapter 1#1:19|1.1.19–22]]</ref> At Athens, meanwhile, the government of the 5,000 was replaced by a restored democracy within a few months of this battle; Donald Kagan has suggested that the absence of Theramenes, "the best spokesman for the moderates", paved the way for this restoration.<ref>Kagan, ''The Peloponnesian War'', 420</ref>

According to Diodorus<ref>Diodorus Siculus, ''Library'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Diod.+13.66.4 13.66]</ref> and [[Plutarch]],<ref>Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Plut.+Alc.+31.4&fromdoc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0006 31.4]</ref> Theramenes participated under the command of Alcibiades to the siege of [[Byzantium]] (408 BC), winning the battle against the Peloponnesian army that was appointed to defend that city: Alcibiades was in command of the right wing, while Theramenes was in charge of the left one.