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

Date: 431

## The fact

A speech-as-book is a data-limit path: it is Thucydides’ art. Split civic-ideology improving. The dated public instrument is stored under 1919-08-01. [Pericles](/people/pericles) did not operate this later page as a civil-registry autograph.

It is one event.

## 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. Sharing a field with them is not a reason to drop a documented act, and it is not a reason to assign later consequences done in the name after death.

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

Named person as heading of the dated public instrument. Later editors, museums, printers, or offices share publication. Complex where later carriers are the surviving public file.

## Evidence and sources

Perseus — Thucydides, History and Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War (Crawley translation) independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Perseus — Thucydides, History (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

A speech-as-book is a data-limit path: it is Thucydides’ art. Split civic-ideology improving.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Established here: a sourced, dated public instrument with a named contribution by Pericles.

They are not a public rating.

The driver `personal-data-protection` is attached because the mechanism named in Significance follows from this instrument, not because a standing list of welfare headings needed another tick. Pericles did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act. A portrait or conventional bust is not this mechanism. Allegation, reconstruction, and established occurrence stay distinct.

## People

- Pericles: https://factrail.ai/people/pericles

## Drivers

- Personal-Data Protection: https://factrail.ai/drivers/personal-data-protection

## Sources

- https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7142/pg7142-images.html
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

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