Son of Oloros; an Athenian; and he had a son, Timotheos. On his father's side he was descended from the general Miltiades, and on his mother's side from the Thracian king Oloros. He was a student of Antiphon. His floruit was the 87th Olympiad.[1] He wrote about the war between the Peloponnesians and the Athenians. At Olympia, while still a child, he heard Herodotus reciting the histories he had written, and he was so moved with enthusiasm that his eyes filled with tears. When Herodotus recognized the boy's nature he addressed his father Oloros: "I pronounce you blessed for this wonderful child, Oloros. For your son has a soul passionate for learning." And he was not mistaken in this pronouncement.[2]
This Thucydides was a man of many talents, in beauty of words, in accuracy of facts, and in strategic, deliberative and panegyric rhetoric.
This author switches from feminine words to neuter. For instance: "they turn toward Macedonia, to which they had first [...]."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "Thucydidean writing."