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Pericles’ Funeral Oration Pericles Translated by R. Crawley Excerpted from Book 2 of Thucydides In the same winter the Athenians gave a funeral at the public cost to those who had first fallen in this war. It was a custom of their ancestors, and the manner of it is as follows. Three days before the ceremony, the bones of the dead are laid out in a tent which has been erected; and their friend..

Pericles’ Last Speech (Thucydides Book II, 59-64) Pericles Translated by Rex Warner (adapted) After the second invasion of the Peloponnesians there had been a change in the spirit of the Athenians. Their land had been twice devastated, and they had to contend with the war and the plague at the same time. Now they began to blame Pericles for having persuaded them to go to war and to hold him r..