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

Thucydides son of Melesias

fl. 440s BCE · dates approximate · identity secure · PA 7268 receipt — the person layer

Pericles' aristocratic opponent — PA 7268, of Alopece; not the historian, and the record itself says so.

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

Plutarch quotes his jest on Pericles' persuasiveness — the son of Melesias, the political antagonist. secure

There is on record also a certain saying of Thucydides, the son of Melesias, touching the clever persuasiveness of Pericles, a saying uttered in jest. Thucydides belonged to the party of the Good and True, and was for a very long time a political antagonist of Pericles. Plut. Pericles 8 Pericles · Plutarch

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

Two Athenians, one name, adjacent register entries. secure Kirchner prints the historian at 7267 and this man at 7268 on facing columns; the record's 'thucydides' drawer (92 mentions) mixes them, as Wave C's identity judgments recorded. The son of Melesias gets no door to the witness card — that card belongs to the historian. the other man: Thucydides son of Olorus

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

Kirchner's PA 7268: son of Melesias, of Alopece — Kirchner cites the very Plutarch chapters the house serves. secure

7268 eOTKTAIAHS (I) MEAH2I0T (II) AAQnEKHeEN. 0. A. Pluf. Pericl. II. 8. M. Plut. Pericl. 8. Kirchner, Prosopographia Attica, vol. I (1901), p. 471 cited, never reprinted — the apparatus shelf

The scan's reading of the Greek head, carried as it stands; the citation trail (Plut. Pericl. 11, Pericl. 8) lands on served episodes. 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 name's other bearers — identities sharing ‘thucydides’; the desk keeps them apart

Thucydides son of Olorus — c. 460 – c. 400 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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