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who fell in the service of their country by funeral. orations. The manner in which the Greeks conducted a pub-. lic funeral is described by Tliucydides (2 35) : "The. relics of the dead were exposed in a tent, erected for. the purpose, for three days, during which the rela-. tives might bring funeral offerings.
Pericles’s Funeral Oration 495 BC – 429 BC Most of those who have spoken here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to our other funeral customs. It seemed to them a worthy thing that such an honor should be given at their burial to the dead who have fallen on the field of battle. But I should have preferred
Introduction to the Funeral Oration. In 431 BCE, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War, held their traditional public funeral for all those who had been killed. After the dead had been buried in a public grave, one of the leading citizens, chosen by the city, would offer a suitable speech, and on this occasion Pericles was chosen.
The Peloponnesian War. Pericles gave his oration, or ceremonial speech, about 431 BCE. It was the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE). This war was fought between the two most powerful city-states of ancient Greece: Athens and Sparta. Athens was a proud democracy (ruled by its citizens), while Sparta was an oligarchy ...
Sep 10, 2019 · Pericles's Funeral Oration is a famous speech attributed to Pericles in Thucydides ' History of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, delivered it at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead. English-language translations of Pericles's Funeral Oration ...
Mar 7, 2019 · Donate. In 431 BCE the Athenian statesman Pericles delivered one of the most influential speeches of all time, his Epitaphios or Funeral Oration. The occasion was at the funeral of the first Athenian soldiers to lose their lives in the Peloponnesian War.
