Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War: The Funeral Oration of Pericles

"In this episode of Literary Tales, we turn to the classic text Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War and examine the concept of Athenian exceptionalism through the disputation of the Athenians and Spartans and the Funeral Oration of Pericles.
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