Since Athens is considered the birthplace of democracy, the ancient Greek statesman Pericles must be considered its father.

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 ...

The less literary and more historically realistic reason may have been simpler: soldiers fought because their masters required it of them. The novelty of this oration is that it provides an answer ...

In Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", Mark Antony's funeral oration includes, ""We have come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them. The good is oft interred with ...

Giving the funeral oration for Britain's Princess Diana, her brother Charles said he was so drained that he had to punch the last few words out of his diaphragm as he struggled to keep control.

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 ...

A noted orator, Pericles stated in his famous Funeral Oration that Athenian citizens regard “a man who takes no interest in public affairs not as a harmless, but a useless character.” 3:56 ...

The official funeral oration, or epitaphios logos, emerged in ancient Athens sometime between 508 and 460 B.C. As Thucydides explains in his “History of the Peloponnesian War,” these orations ...

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 ...