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Pericles' Funeral Oration: Democracy's Founding Speech
In Episode 171 of The History of Greece, Lucas and Luna explore Pericles' Funeral Oration, the most famous speech of classical Athens. Delivered in 431/430 BCE at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War, the oration as recorded by Thucydides lays out Pericles' vision of Athenian democracy, civic duty, and the value of the individual within the state. The hosts discuss the context of the public funeral for war dead, the rhetorical structure of the speech, its famous praise of Athens as 'the school of Hellas', and the tension between Pericles' idealised…
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