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 ...

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War: The Complete Hobbes Translation ... 77. 14. F ollowing Plutarch (Pericles, 29.3), Donald Kagan suggests that the clash of the Athenian and Corinthian navies was a ...

The Peloponnesian War in which Athens fought Sparta began in 431 B.C. At the outset, the Athenian statesman Pericles ordered all inhabitants of the Attica region to take refuge within the capital ...

In the complex and often violent political arena of ancient Greece, ideals of civic engagement and self-determination mingled ...

In 431 BCE, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War ... democracy was seen as a good thing, and Pericles’ speech became its most powerful celebration. In the First World War, for example ...

Arriving in 464 BC, he became a friend of Pericles and outraged religious ... were very idealistic. During the Peloponnesian War, he defied new laws restricting what could be taught and as a ...

Her words echoed the famous Pericles’s Funeral Oration, a speech to honor the fallen in the Peloponnesian War that confronts two types of state, the open and democratic Athens of Pericles ...

The pinnacle of its glory was in the mid-fifth century BC, between the Persian wars and the Peloponnesian war, when it was ruled by Pericles.