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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. Thucydides notes that none of the speeches is recorded verbatim.
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This piece is a funeral oratory, a speech written to honor fallen Athenian heroes at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War. At such a time of high emotions and patriotism – Pericles has not one theme but several.
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 ...
The Funeral Oration was recorded by Thucydides in book two of his famous History of the Peloponnesian War. Although Thucydides records the speech in the first person as if it were a word for word record of what Pericles said, there can be little doubt that he edited the speech at the very least.
After the funeral, Pericles stood in front of the grave to give his speech. His words were recorded by the Athenian historian Thucydides (c. 460–c. 404 BCE), who included the speech in his 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. Pericles, a great supporter of democracy, was a Greek leader and statesman during the Peloponnesian War.
The “Funeral Oration of Pericles” is an exercise in persuasion by the general who led Athens’s efforts in the Peloponnesian War. This speech, as recorded by Thucydides, is rhetorically different from other classical Greek speeches.
