PBS8 年
Pericles on his deathbed from The Greeks documentary
One of the victims of the plague that swept Athens in 430 BC was Pericles himself. According to the historian Thucydides: '...The plague seized Pericles, not with sharp and violent fits ...
PBS3 年
Pericles Funeral Oration in Depth
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 ...
University of Bristol6 年
II.43: Context and Meaning
After the dead had been buried in a public grave, one of the leading citizens, chosen by the city, would offer a suitable speech, and on this occasion Pericles was chosen. The Funeral Oration has ...
BBC5 年
The BBC Television Shakespeare
When Pericles solves the terrible answer to Antioch's riddle, his life is thrust into turmoil. He flees for life, into the path of famine, shipwreck, love, and fatherhood.