The Funeral Oration of Pericles is an excerpt from Thrcydides, The Peloponnesian War.

Pericles was a great Greek speaker and renown leader of Athenian democracy during the middle part of the fifth century B.C.E. From this speech, we find out how much he believed in Athenian democracy because he makes no ill references to it. Instead he keeps stating that Athenian democracy is a model for others to follow and that the Peloponnesian War of 430 B.C.E. is a sacrifice in order to keep their way of life and Athenian democracy.

As a central figure in Athenian democr

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