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Philomel and pericles: Silence in the funeral speech

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 September 2009

Lorna Hardwick
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This comment occurs in the closing sequence of the epitaphios of 431/0 attributed to Pericles. The speech was delivered at the public funeral held for Athenian casualties in the first year of the Archidamian War. The earlier part of the speech was devoted to praise of the characteristics, practices, and values of the Athenians as a democratic and imperial community. The features which Pericles is reported as stressing were those which ‘made Athens great’, those by which her dominance was shown. From these is derived the glory achieved by those who died ‘as became Athenians’ (2.43).

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Greece & Rome , Volume 40 , Issue 2 , October 1993 , pp. 147 - 162
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1993

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