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Thucydides prints a Funeral Oration as literary testimony, not a tape

Thucydides’ Funeral Oration is literary testimony, not a stenograph. In the causal graph this event weakens the driver Personal-Data Protection.

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Pericles did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

Context

Shared institutions, unnamed crews, and later editors remain in the record and do not erase a documented heading.

Pericles Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Pericles’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional c.495–429 BCE. Thucydides’ Funeral Oration is literary testimony, not a stenograph.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Pericles

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThucydides prints a Funeral Oration as literary testimony, not a tape
    2. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

    impact weight 0.4 · Effect from 1 December 431 · verified

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (Crawley translation)Project Gutenberg · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Perseus — Thucydides, HistoryPerseus Digital Library / Tufts · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Pericles did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorPericles
  2. contributed toFactThucydides prints a Funeral Oration as literary testimony, not a tape
  3. weakensDriverPersonal-Data Protection

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Factrail. (2026). Thucydides prints a Funeral Oration as literary testimony, not a tape. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/per-funeral-oration-as-later

https://factrail.ai/facts/per-funeral-oration-as-later

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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