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Pericles's Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852) [1] " Pericles's Funeral Oration " (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides 's History of the Peloponnesian War. [2] The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at ...
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.”. The speech, recorded by the historian Thucydides who was ...
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 deeds have been brave, they should be ...
May 14, 2020 · Pericles' Funeral Oration - Thucydides' Version. 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 ...
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Pericles was born into one of Athens’ leading families in the heyday of classical Greece. His father Xanthippus was a hero of the Persian Warand his mother belonged to the culturally powerful Alcmaeonidae family. He grew up in the company of artists and philosophers—his friends included Protagoras, Zeno and the pioneering Athenian philosopher Anaxa...
The golden age of Athenian culture is usually dated from 449 to 431 B.C., the years of relative peace between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. After the second Persian invasion of Greece in 479, Athens and its allies throughout the Aegean formed the Delian League, a military alliance focused on the Persian threat. Following a failed Athenian att...
As Athens grew in power under Pericles, Spartafelt more and more threatened and began to demand concessions from the Athenians. Pericles refused, and in 431 B.C. conflict between Athens and Sparta’s ally Corinth pushed the Spartan king Archidamus II to invade Attica near Athens. Pericles adopted a strategy that played to the Athenians’ advantage as...
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Summary: “Funeral Oration of Pericles”. Thucydides’s “Funeral Oration of Pericles” comes from The History of the Peloponnesian War. Although Thucydides was an eyewitness to the war, he promised never to report anything without interviewing multiple witnesses. He died with his treatise incomplete—stopping mid-sentence—yet every ...
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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.
