cradles by a painful discipline seek after
of ignorance, hesitation of reflection. laws, particularly such as regard the protection
Pericles delivered the oration not only to bury the dead but to praise democracy.
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It follows the English translation of the full text transcript of Pericles' Funeral Oration, according to the Greek historian Thucydides.
Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour. although unwritten, yet cannot be broken without
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Funeral Oration Pericles: After the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, a very influential general and statesman, Pericles, delivered a speech to the still grieving city of Athens, simultaneously assuring people that the city state was in good hands and relieving the them consent to deprive their country of their
have it, that rejoices the heart of age and
father. The funeral oration of Pericles, as reported by Thucydides, is the earliest epitaphios presented in full.
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Pericles' Funeral Oration -- Hear and Read the Full Text -- Athens, Greece Listen to and read the funeral oration of Pericles from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. your merit be ever so transcendent, you will
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Pericles begins his oration by setting out the difficulty of his task: to please those in the audience who were close to the dead with tales of glory and honor without dismissing the citizens of Athens, who Pericles claims only want to hear praise of the dead so long as they can feel satisfied that they are equally great, (II.35). a death so glorious as that which has caused
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The burial of the war dead in the first year of the Peloponnesian War is regarded as reflecting the fifth-century dominance of the public co-memorial. Page, Back to
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My task is now finished.
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Pericles’ Funeral Oration. History
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at the summit of their fortune, escaped, not
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The main purpose Pericles gave his speech was to praise the Athenian war dead. the requirements of the law are now satisfied. is gone, all are wont to praise him, and should
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For example, in the speech he states, “When men’s deeds have been brave, they should be honored in deed only and with such honor as this public funeral”.
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Most of those who have spoken here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to our other funeral customs. First
Pericles gave a few reasons for giving this funeral oration.
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incredulity.
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old; and honor it is, not gain, as some would
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Pericles' Funeral Oration is sometimes compared with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Pericles claims that … advance unsupported into the territory of a
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So died these men as became Athenians.
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intimation of their having any. And surely, to a man of spirit, the degradation
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heroes have the whole earth for their tomb; and
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kindness to keep the recipient in his debt;
against a detachment is magnified into a victory
for show, and place the real disgrace of poverty
see an arduous struggle before you. still fair judges of public matters; for, unlike
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"The Funeral Oration of Pericles" is an article from The New York Latin Leaflet, Volume 1. grew, what the national habits out of which it
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It follows the English translation of the full text transcript of
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celebrated is only what the heroism of these and
produce a man who, where he has only himself to
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measure complete; for the Athens that I have
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