In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate ... Athenians had thus achieved something quite unique - being both ruled ...

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate ... Athenians had thus achieved something quite unique - being both ruled ...

In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981 ... the numerous surviving funeral speeches that ...