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"Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. [2] The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles , an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (BC 431–404) as a part of the annual ...
Pericles (/ ˈ p ɛr ɪ k l iː z /, Ancient Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens". [1]
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
— Pericles, Greek statesman (429 BCE), discussing with his friends what his greatest accomplishment had been "Give the boys a holiday." [8] [11]: 4 [17] [note 6] — Anaxagoras, Greek philosopher (c. 428 BCE), in response to citizens of Lampsacus asking how they could honor his memory "This to the fair Critias." [17]
Aspasia (/ æ ˈ s p eɪ ʒ (i) ə,-z i ə,-ʃ ə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Ἀσπασία Greek:; c. 470 – after 428 BC [a]) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus , she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles , with whom she had a son named Pericles the Younger .
The death of Pericles from the plague in 429 BC left the field clear for new leadership in Athens. Hitherto Cleon had only been a vigorous opposition speaker, a trenchant critic [ 1 ] and accuser of state officials, but he came forward as the professed champion and leader of the democracy and rapidly came to dominate Athenian politics.
Bust of Pericles. Pericles (also spelled Perikles) (c. 495 – c. 429 BC, Greek: Περικλῆς, meaning 'surrounded by glory') was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's Golden Age–specifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
The Parthenon of Athens, built in the 5th century BC following the Greek victory in the Persian wars. Fifth-century Athens was the Greek city-state of Athens in the time from 480 to 404 BC. Formerly known as the Golden Age of Athens, the latter part being the Age of Pericles, it was buoyed by political hegemony, economic growth and cultural ...