Want this question answered?
Pericles .
Funeral Oration.
The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
Honourable.
Thucydides
He told the widows to end their grief, that the children of dead soldier would be cared for by the state, and that Athens would win the war which he had started (27 years later, it lost the war).
Pericles .
pericles died when the plague swept throug Athens and lost 2 sons
cause he DID
lots
Funeral Oration.
The purpose of the funeral oration is not only to respect the departed, but also to instill the citizens' national pride and a passion to fight for Athens.
deeply marked
A funeral oration is a speech given at a funeral. It usually gives a sundry of the persons good traits, his life history, his social standing and education and so on. It may also be called a eulogy (a word which comes from the Latin - speaking well (of the dead)).
The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
17 years na siya dre?