Pericles' Funeral Oration

GPTKB entity

Statements (22)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:public_speaker
gptkbp:deliveredBy gptkb:Athens
Pericles
431 BC
gptkbp:event funeral for the first Athenian soldiers to die in the Peloponnesian War
gptkbp:genre epideictic oration
gptkbp:historicalName gptkb:Peloponnesian_War
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Pericles' Funeral Oration
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Abraham_Lincoln's_Gettysburg_Address
gptkbp:language gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:preservedIn Thucydides' writings
gptkbp:purpose to honor the dead and inspire the living
gptkbp:recordedAt gptkb:Thucydides
gptkbp:significance one of the most famous speeches from ancient Greece
gptkbp:structure praise of the dead, praise of Athens, exhortation to the living
gptkbp:targetAudience Athenian citizens
gptkbp:theme gptkb:Athenian_democracy
praise of Athens
valor of the fallen
gptkbp:workAppearsIn gptkb:History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Thucydides'_History_of_the_Peloponnesian_War
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5