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This volume is a recent contribution to Princeton University Press’s Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers series, which seeks to make the great literature of antiquity more accessible to the general public. After a number of volumes published since on the works of ancient philosophers (Seneca, Cicero, and Epictetus), this is the first in the series devoted to a historian, and the first by a female translator. This pocket-sized book ( x inches) is intended to be an introduction to the complex issues of diplomacy, warfare, and foreign policy over which the classical Athenians debated, as recorded in the speeches of Thucydides’ History of the Peloponnesian War. This will have a broad appeal to academics in the fields of classics, history, and political science, as well as to professional foreign policy analysts, political thinkers, and military strategists.
With many English translations of Thucydides’ History already available, why is there a need for another? Every generation has its own Thucydides who is invoked to elucidate contemporary affairs, whether it be the Cold War, the War on Terrorism, or the geopolitical competition between the United States and China (as recently explored in Graham Allison’s Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s
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Funeral oration (ancient Greece)
For other uses of "epitaphios", see Epitaphios.
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral. Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour. In ancient Greece and, in particular, in ancient Athens, the funeral oration was deemed an indispensable component of the funeral ritual.
The epitaphios logos is regarded as an almost exclusive Athenian creation, although some early elements of such speeches exist in the epos of Homer and in the lyric poems of Pindar. "Pericles' Funeral Oration", delivered for the war dead during the Peloponnesian War of BC, is the earlier extant example of the genre.[1]
History
[edit]The orator Anaximenes of Lampsacus claimed that the funeral oration was first established in the 6th-century BC in Athens by Solon,[2] but this is widely doubted by historians.[3][4] More plausible, but not beyond doubt,[4] is the statement by Dionysius of Halicarnassus that the Athenians instituted the funeral oration "in honour or those who fought at Art