Thucydides (son of Melesias) · Atlas

in the texts

Constitution of the AtheniansClassical · Greek

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.

constitution of the athenians ¶

LachesClassical · Greek

Son of Melesias, present at the gathering, named after his grandfather; one of the two boys whose education is under discussion.

we have two sons here, my friend that one, called Thucydides after his grandfather, and I this one;

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TheagesClassical · Greek

Athenian statesman, son of Melesias, mentioned as having conversed with and then quarrelled with Socrates.

On his return he found that Thucydides, son of Melesias, son of Thucydides, had been conversing with me.

theages ¶

History of the Peloponnesian WarClassical · Greek

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.

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