"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...
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a text from the Bible Funeral oration (ancient Greece) Oration at Korean traditional funeral Pericles' Funeral Oration, delivered at the end of the first...
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A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral. Funerary...
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not hindered by the obscurity of his condition. — Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration His family's nobility and wealth allowed him to fully pursue his...
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Gettysburg Address (redirect from Gettysburg Oration)
between Lincoln's speech and Pericles's Funeral Oration during the Peloponnesian War, described by Thucydides. Pericles' speech, like Lincoln's: Begins...
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Menexenus (dialogue) (category Funeral orations)
Phaedo. The Menexenus consists mainly of a lengthy funeral oration, referencing the one given by Pericles in Thucydides' account of the Peloponnesian War...
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given name Pericles' Funeral Oration, by the Athenian Pericles with the Corinthian helmet, a lost statue known from copies Project Pericles, a non-profit...
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text of international relations theory, while his version of Pericles's Funeral Oration is widely studied by political theorists, historians, and students...
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benefit his country whatever be the obscurity of his condition." Pericles's Funeral Oration, translated by Rex Warner (1954), via wikisource: "Our form of...
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protected the city, exhibited its glory, and gave work to its people. Pericles' Funeral Oration is nowadays synonymous with the struggle for participatory democracy...
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English scholars through Pericles' Funeral Oration, as mentioned in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles uses it in a positive way...
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Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-22482-4. "Pericles' Funeral Oration". the-athenaeum.org. Graeber 2013, p. 184. Graeber 2013, pp. 168–169...
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quotation from Pericles's Funeral Oration: FREEDOM IS THE SURE POSSESSION OF THOSE ALONE WHO/ HAVE THE COURAGE TO DEFEND IT/ PERICLES There was controversy...
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BC: "Pericles's Funeral Oration" by the Greek statesman Pericles, significant because it departed from the typical formula of Athenian funeral speeches...
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participation and criticized non-participation. Thucydides quotes Pericles' Funeral Oration as saying: "[we] regard... him who takes no part in these [public]...
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between various parties. Of the speeches, the most famous is the funeral oration of Pericles, which is found in Book Two. Being an Athenian general in the...
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An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι- (epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') is a short text honoring...
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French in their own country) the creation at a national level of a symbolic funeral and burial of an "Unknown Warrior", proposing that the grave should in...
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open society. This was recognized by Pericles, a statesman of the Athenian democracy, in his laudatory funeral oration: "advancement in public life falls...
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ΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΝ ΤΟ ΕΥΨΥΧΟΝ ("freedom stems from valour"), a quote from Pericles' Funeral Oration: "These take as your model and, judging happiness to be the fruit...
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Modern influence of Ancient Greece (section Pericles)
text of international relations theory, while his version of Pericles' Funeral Oration is widely studied by political theorists, historians, and students...
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mind." On the lantern tower a quotation in Ancient Greek from Pericles' Funeral Oration. Supporting the pediment are six Ionic fluted columns leading...
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táphos. For illustrious men have the whole earth for their tomb. Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 2.43.3 Ἀνεῤῥίφθω...
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classical Athens became fully aware of the fact as seen in Pericles' Funeral Oration, where Pericles praises the Athenian way of life—valuing freedom over...
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them, however, actually delivered) of Isocrates. Funeral orations, such as the famous speech of Pericles in Thucydides, also partook of the nature of panegyrics...
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to and quoted by Aristotle, including a speech on Hellenic unity, a funeral oration for Athenians fallen in war, and a brief quotation from an Encomium...
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English scholars probably from Pericles' Funeral Oration, as mentioned in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles uses it in a positive way...
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the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2018. "Pericles' funeral oration". Auckland War Memorial Museum. Translated by Bernard Makoare...
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Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles, with whom she had a son named Pericles the Younger. According to the traditional historical...
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