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Funeral Oration of Pericles

( 431 BCE ) Commentary by Todd W. Ewing, Williams Baptist College

Glossary

effeminacy in the context of the times, refinement to the point of triviality
jealous surveillance over each other mean-spirited spying on one's neighbors
my predecessors in this place men who had delivered earlier annual funeral orations in Athens

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Pericles (New York Public Library)

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