Thymochares

Thymochares (Gr. Θυμοχάρης) was an Athenian general under the Four Hundred who may have come from the deme of Sphettos.^[1]

In late 411 BC, commanding 36 triremes, he opposed the arrival of the Spartan commander Hegesandridas at Oropos, but was routed, losing 22 ships at the Battle of Eretria.^[2] Most of the rowers fled to Eretria where they were slaughtered. Thucydides does not say what happened to Thymochares after the defeat.^[3] He next appears in Xenophon at an unknown location (probably somewhere in Euboea), where he arrives with ‘a few ships’, but is again defeated by Hegesandridas.^[4]