Person — one identity, discriminated; every claim below carries its ground or says it has none

Thucydides son of Olorus

c. 460 – c. 400 BCE · dates approximate · identity secure · PA 7267 receipt — the person layer

The historian of the war — PA 7267, son of Olorus, of Halimous; the drawer that carries his name also holds Pericles' rival.

Who he is — which bearer of the name; the grounds are named

He opens his own book in the third person. secure

Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote the history of the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians, beginning at the moment that it broke out, and believing that it would be a great war, and more worthy of relation than any that had preceded it. Thuc. 1.1 History of the Peloponnesian War · Thucydides

How to tell him apart — the record confusing and un-confusing its own names; doors to the other men

Plutarch keeps the other Thucydides apart: of Alopece, Cimon's kinsman, Pericles' opponent. secure

put forward Thucydides of Alopece, a discreet man and a relative of Cimon, Plut. Pericles 11 Pericles · Plutarch

the other man: Thucydides son of Melesias

The family — as stated, never construed

He names his own father when he enters his own history at Amphipolis. secure

Thucydides, son of Olorus, the author of this history, who was at the isle of Thasos, a Parian colony, half a day's sail from Amphipolis, Thuc. 4.104 History of the Peloponnesian War · Thucydides

The authorities — the registers cited page-anchored, never reprinted

Kirchner's PA 7267: son of Olorus, of Halimous — printed one entry above his homonym. secure

7267 eOTKrAIAHS OAOPOY AAlMOrsiOZ. 9. 0. A. Plut. Cwi. 4. Marcellin. Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica, vol. I (1901), p. 469 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

The scan's reading of ΘΟΥΚΥΔΙΔΗΣ ΟΛΟΡΟΥ — carried as it stands, honest-OCR law. The English rendering in the claim line is the house's own; the excerpt carries the register's words.

Doors — where this identity stands in the house

the record's drawer

his name's drawer, shared with his homonyms — the counts belong to the name, not the man. Thucydides, the figure — 92 mentions across 78 episodes, counted by the house's first pass.

the witness card

This identity is a served author — his vantage, method and reception are profiled. the witness card.

The name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘thucydides’; the desk keeps them apart

Thucydides son of Melesias — fl. 440s BCE

The record here: 166 works · 12,119 episodes served · identities carry claims, claims carry grounds — episode, page, or an honest open · dprr alignment reserved, nothing fetched

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