Pericles's Funeral Oration

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 the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (BC 431–404) as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead.

  1. ^ "Pericles' Funeral Oration". the-athenaeum.org. Retrieved 1 January 2015.
  2. ^ Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, 2.34–2.46. Greek text and English translation thereof available online at the Perseus Project.