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"Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles , an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (BC 431–404) as a part of the annual ...
Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration. 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 that, when men's ...
May 14, 2020 · Updated on May 14, 2020. Pericles' funeral oration was a speech written by Thucydides and delivered by Pericles for his history of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles delivered the oration not only to bury the dead but to praise democracy.
May 9, 2023 · May 9, 2023. Pericles’ Funeral Oration is regarded as one of the greatest speech sof all time. Public Domain. In 431 BCE, the Athenian statesman Pericles delivered one of the most influential speeches of all time, “Pericles’ Epitaphios,” otherwise known as “Pericles’ Funeral Oration.”
Nov 9, 2009 · The most famous among them is his “Funeral Oration,” a speech given after the first year of the Peloponnesian War to commemorate the war dead.
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Pericles' funeral oration speech recorded by Thuc. 2.34-46, after the onset of the Peloponnesian war and the plague starting in 430 B.C. Pericles
Jan 26, 1996 · Thucydides (c.460/455-c.399 BCE): Pericles' Funeral Oration from The Peloponnesian War (Book 2.34-46) This famous speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war. Funerals after such battles were public rituals and Pericles used the occasion to make a classic statement of the value of democracy ...
