Bayan wannan mika wuya, Spartan navarch Lysander ya sanya tsauraran gwamnatocin oligarchic a Athens, wanda ya zama sananne da Tyrants talatin. Wannan gwamnati ta kashe wasu 'yan ƙasa kuma ta hana dukansu amma kaɗan daga cikin hakkokinsu, daga ƙarshe ya zama mai tsananin gaske har ma da matsakaicin oligarch Theramenes ya fada cikin rikici da gwamnati kuma an kashe shi. Tsoron rayuwarsu, Atheans da yawa sun gudu zuwa Thebes.Thrasybulus ya kasance ɗaya daga cikin farkon waɗanda suka yi hamayya da oligarchy kuma an kore su zuwa Thebes jim kaɗan bayan hauhawar sa zuwa iko. A can, ya sami goyon baya daga Isbanban shugaban Thrasas da mabiyansa, waɗanda suka taimaka masa a cikin shirin shirya Athenians, wanda ya hana shi guduwa, wanda aka sani da Tyrants talatin.
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