“Future ages will wonder at us, as the present age wonders at us now,” Pericles, the great Athenian statesman, declared in his funeral oration, a celebrated speech in the winter of 431–430 B.C.E. He ...

In the year 431 BC Pericles stood before the popular assembly and urged them to make a momentous decision: 'If we go to war, as I think we must, be determined that we are not going to climb down. For ...

In the year 431 BC Pericles stood before the popular assembly and urged them to make a momentous decision: 'If we go to war, as I think we must, be determined that we are not going to climb down. For ...

Many readers have been reluctant to take Plato’s Menexenus as evidence for its author’s fruitful engagement with the institution of the funeral oration and have overlooked the value of the dialogue ...

Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address stands with the Apology of Socrates and the Funeral Oration of Pericles among the great speeches of human history. In this episode, Diana Schaub, Devorah Goldman ...