In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably rewritten ...
“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now,” Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, declared in his funeral oration, a celebrated speech in the winter of 431–430 B.C.E. He ...
Foreign Policy: Blogging Thucydides (II): Pericles’ funeral oration & the Gettysburg Address
Five millennia ago, it was the law in Athens to honor those who sacrificed their lives fighting for their country. Pericles’ funeral oration, his immortal tribute to the dead of the Peloponnesian war, ...
Regarding Fouad Ajami's "No Surrender" (op-ed, March 19): It was in his second speech to the Athenians, not in the funeral oration, that Pericles used the words, "I am the same as I was, and do not ...
While I’m sure many of you have read Pericles’ funeral oration to Athens at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War, I thought it might be a fitting way to wrap-up 2012. With great change ...
In the funeral oration of Pericles, still required reading in the renowned Core Curriculum of Columbia College, the Athenian leader reminds his embattled people that "when a citizen is in any way ...
Houston Chronicle: Opinion: Civil war, plague? Biden’s inaugural speech parallels Pericles’ oration in Athens, Greece.
Opinion: Civil war, plague? Biden’s inaugural speech parallels Pericles’ oration in Athens, Greece.
ORATION definition: a formal public speech, especially one delivered on a special occasion, as on an anniversary, at a funeral, or at academic exercises. See examples of oration used in a sentence.