Pericles addresses the Athenian assembly from the Pnyx, delivering the funeral oration Thucydides renders as the definitive statement of Athenian democratic self-understanding — the speech Smith gestures toward when he names Pericles among history's masters of persuasion. Philipp Foltz, Pericles' Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede), 1852. Public domain.
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