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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 ...
Pericles's Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852) "Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.
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 · 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.”
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.
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. Created in electronic form. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text. hide Search. Searching in English.
Mar 27, 2019 · 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...
Oct 28, 2012 · Listen to and read the funeral oration of Pericles from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War.
The best-known and most-quoted portion of his work is the funeral oration given by the military leader Pericles in 431 BCE, after the first year of the war; it commemorated the Athenians who died in battle that year, giving them an equal burial at the expense of the state.
In his introduction to Pericles’ Funeral Oration, the historian Thucydides explains the time-honored practice of providing public funerals to Athenian soldiers killed in battle: “The dead are laid in the public sepulchre, maintained for those who fall in war, in the most beautiful suburb of the city…”
