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Funeral Oration of Pericles

( 431 BCE )

Further Reading

Books

  • Kagan, Donald. Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy. New York: Free Press, 1991.
  • ———. The Archidamian War. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1996.
  • Meier, Christian. Athens: A Portrait of the City in Its Golden Age. New York: Metropolitan Books, 1998.
  • Ober, Josiah. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998.
  • Plutarch. Pericles. In Plutarch's Lives: Pericles and Fabius Maximus; Nicias and Crassus, trans. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1916.
  • Thucydides. History of the Peloponnesian War, trans. C. F. Smith. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1921.
  • Xenophon. Constitution of Athens. In Xenophon: Scripta Minora, trans. E. C. Marchant and G. W. Bowersock. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1925.
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