Pericles’ Funeral Oration

Pericles’ Funeral Oration, an 1852 painting by Philipp Foltz.

Pericles’ Funeral Oration is a famous speech from Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC) as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead.

Philipp Foltz (11 May 1805 – 5 August 1877) was a German historical painter, born at Bingen.

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