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“This famous speech was given by the Athenian leader Pericles after the first battles of the Peloponnesian war. Funerals after such battles were public rituals and Pericles used the . In the same winter the Athenians gave a funeral at the public cost to those who had first fallen in this war After the bodies have been laid in the earth, a man chosen by the state, of . Pericles’ Funeral Oration [Given by Athenian leader Pericles after the earliest battles of the Peloponnesian War ( BCE).] M ost of my predecessors in this place have commended . Pericles Funeral Oration in Depth - Free download as Word Doc .doc /.docx), PDF File .pdf), Text File .txt) or read online for free. Pericles delivered a famous Funeral Oration in BCE to commemorate fallen Athenian troops, praising Athens as a model democracy and the ideal way of life. Pericles’s Funeral Oration BC – BC Most of those who have spoken here before me have commended the lawgiver who added this oration to our other funeral customs. It seemed to them a worthy thing that such an honor should be given at their burial to the dead who have fallen on the field of battle. But I should have preferred. The funeral oration over these dead was delivered by the brilliant and charismatic politician and general, Pericles, who perished a little bit later in the horrifying plague that decimated Athens the next year.