Pericles lifted Athens into a golden age through his support of the arts, architecture, philosophy, and democracy building.

In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who had already fallen in battle. Recorded, and probably ...

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The word “democracy” comes from the ancient Greeks, and so too does the grandest celebration of democracy in the Funeral Speech of Pericles (430 B.C.) preserved or composed for us by Thucydides.

James Romm reviews "Pericles of Athens," by Vincent Azoulay. Thucydides praised Pericles for his ability to tame and control the wild beast of democracy.