It was a moment of political convulsion and public disquiet; a moment of dire pandemic and demagogic politicians; and a moment to grieve for the dead and galvanize the living. It was a speech given by ...

Our public men have, besides politics, their private affairs to attend to, and our ordinary citizens, though occupied with the pursuits of industry, are still fair judges of public matters; for, ...

Yet as Robin Waterfield points out in his excellent Athens: A History, Pericles’ oration was a eulogy not only for the fallen of war but, unwittingly, for democratic Athens itself. If Athens was at ...

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