For famous men have the whole earth as their memorial.

ἀνδρῶν γὰρ ἐπιφανῶν πᾶσα γῆ τάφος

Pericles

Quoted in Funeral Oration, by Thucydides

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Topic

Legacy

Speaker

Pericles

Author

Thucydides

Source

Funeral Oration History of the Peloponnesian War

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech Historical literature

Language

Greek

Time

430 BC 430s BC 5th century BC

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

General Politician

From

Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Original Citation

Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War. c. 431 BC, bk. 2.

Current Citation

Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War, translated by Martin Hammond. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 2.

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