431 BCE
Politics & PowerPericles's Funeral Oration
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"Pericles's Funeral Oration" is a famous speech from Thucydides's 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 (431–404 BC) as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead.
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- Pericles · 494 BCE – 429 BCE
- Thucydides · 460 BCE – 395 BCE