It was customary for the Greeks to hold funeral rites for their war dead, so shortly after the Peloponnesian War, Pericles was asked to deliver his famous funeral oration to commemorate those killed in battle. He used the occasion to present upon the Athenian soldiers and also to affirm the honor of the deaths of the fallen soldiers.
The speech focuses on how democratic institutions serve the common good and leads individual citizens to choose to serve the good of Athens. Pericles states that the Athenian
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