1. Fowl Play: A Curious Lawsuit in Classical Athens;E;The Trials of Thucydides "the Demagogue" in the Anonymous "Life" of Thucydides the Historian', Historia xlv,1990
2. 245-70 at 249. I leave aside here the question of the reason for this rivalry. Not all scholars tend to see in it a conflict of the opponents or supporters of the democracy;Plut;Pericles, Thucydides, son of Melesias, and Athenian Politics Before the War', Historia xiii,1964
3. E. Carawan calls Thucydides a demagogue because he was named prostates tou demou in the anonymous Life of Thucydides (Anon. Vit.Thuc. 7) (Carawan [n. 79, above]). But I am inclined to see in Thucydides Melesiou Cimon's political heir (cf;K.-J H�lkeskamp;Parteiungen und politische Willensbildung im demokratischtn Athen: Pericles und Thukydides, Sohn des Melesias' HZ cclxvii 1998