# A defensive crowded-city strategy at the war’s start is a completed policy heading Date: 431 ## The fact Crowding as later told sits beside the plague row. Medium confidence on unique causal weight. The dated public instrument is stored under 1919-04-01. [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 Britannica — Peloponnesian War 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 Crowding as later told sits beside the plague row. Medium confidence on unique causal weight. ## 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 `infectious-disease-transmission` 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 - Infectious-Disease Transmission: https://factrail.ai/drivers/infectious-disease-transmission ## Sources - https://www.britannica.com/event/Peloponnesian-War - https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0200 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/per-peloponnesian-strategy