Pericles's Funeral Oration

Pericles's Funeral Oration
Pericles's Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852)
Date431 BC; 2457 years ago
LocationKerameikos
ParticipantsPericles

"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 (BC 431–404) as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead.

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