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Pericles’s funeral oration reveals a great deal of information about the Athens, one of the greatest Ancient Greek city-states/empire. It reflects upon the values, culture and traditions that were typical of its social structure as one of the most advanced communities of its times. The speech touches on several important issues and principles governing the life of people in the ancient empire, respect and gratitude for ancestors, men in public service, responsibilities for …

…glory that came through their choice to die in resistance rather then live in submission, and not to strive on sorrow but hope for the better future. In his final remark, he addressed all the widowed women calling upon their “womanly virtues and appropriateness of showing no more weakness than is due to their sex”, briefness and contents of which is the witness to a rather low esteem with which the society regarded their women.