Thucydides (son of Melesias)
“son of Melesias”
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Thucydides
in the texts
Constitution of the Athenians
Athenian statesman, kinsman of Cimon, praised as one of the best public figures
then Pericles of the people, and Thucydides of the others, who was a connection by marriage of Cimon.
The best of those who have taken part in public life at Athens after the men of old seem to have been Nicias and Thucydides and Theramenes.
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian commander sent with reinforcements to Samos during the Samian War; distinct from the historian narrating the work.
Afterwards there came reinforcements, of forty ships with Thucydides, Hagnon, and Phormio, and twenty with Tlepolemus and Anticles, from Athens, and of thirty from Chios and Lesbos.