Plato
At the end of the Peloponnesian War Pericles, an elder states man and builder of the democracy in Athens, at the ceremony to honor those who had fallen, gave a moving speech to remind all of Athens why these men gave their lives. In the course of this infamous speech he begins to discuss what it is that separates Athens from others. Pericles truly believes that Athens is a model to other cities if the time, and a city that he is proud of. However, he is faced with the great challenge of conveying this message to a city mourning people. Only his great skill at rhetoric could create such a positive tone to such a negative occasion. Further, It was this skill that helped pave the way for historical figures throughout time to reach into the hearts of their respective publics (namely, Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address). Parallels of Athenian culture in Pericles’s speech can also be seen in works of the great playwright Sophocles. In this paper I will compare both the Gettysburg Address and Sophocles’s plays Oedipus the King and Antigone to Pericles’s Funeral Oration in an attempt to show the parallels in content and style between them. Pericles in the opening parts of his oration begins to go into something that has always
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Approximate Word count = 2310
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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