Thucydides

Family: Athens · Role: politician · First appears: Pericles

Life events

Pericles defeated Thucydides in ostracism and gained control of Athenian affairs.(Pericles · 📍 Athens)
- With: Pericles
- “At length, coming to a final contest with Thucydides, which of the two should ostracize the other out of the country, and having gone through this peril, he threw his antagonist out, and broke up the confederacy that had been organized against him.”
Pericles caused Cimon and Thucydides to suffer ostracism.(Comparison of Pericles with Fabius · 📍 Athens)
- With: Pericles Cimon
- “the exertions of Pericles to banish Cimon and Thucydides, noble, aristocratic men, who by his means suffered ostracism.”

rivals with Pericles “Thucydides was one of the noble and distinguished citizens, and had been his greatest opponent”
with Cimon (near kinship) “put forward Thucydides of Alopece, a discreet person, and a near kinsman of Cimon's, to conduct the opposition against him”
with Cimon (interaction) “put forward Thucydides of Alopece, a discreet person, and a near kinsman of Cimon's”

with Pericles (Pericles sought Thucydides' banishment and ostracism.) “The mildness of Fabius towards his colleague Minucius does, by way of comparison, rebuke and condemn the exertions of Pericles to banish Cimon and Thucydides, noble, aristocratic men, who by his means suffered ostracism.”

with Alcibiades (Thucydides reports an episode concerning Alcibiades.) “He is more especially blamed for the dishonorable and treacherous way in which, as Thucydides relates, he imposed upon the Lacedaemonian ambassadors, and disturbed the continuance of the peace.”

parent: Melesias “Nicias the son of Niceratus, Thucydides the son of Melesias, and Theramenes the son of Hagnon”
rivals with Pericles “Thucydides came earlier, and, on the behalf of the nobility, was a great opponent of the measures by which Pericles courted the favor of the people.”
rivals with Timaeus “Timaeus, who, hoping in his history to surpass Thucydides in art”

Extracted from the original text of Plutarch's Lives. Made with Rho MD.