page_title: Pericles' Funeral Oration
hierarchical_section_title: Pericles' Funeral Oration
caption_attribution_description: English&#58; Pericles' Funeral OrationEspañol&#58; Discurso fúnebra de PericlesFrançais&#58; Oraison funèbre de PériclèsΕλληνικά&#58; Ο Περικλής Αγορεύων στην Πνύκα
context_page_description: 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 as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead.
context_section_description: 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.
caption: Pericles' Funeral Oration  (Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852)[1]
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