The speech is taken from the 'Anabasis of Alexander' (Book VII Chapter X), written around 130 AD by the Roman/Greek historian Arrian. Arrian had access to eyewitness accounts which are now lost ...
In 431, shortly after the Peloponnesian War had broken out, Pericles delivered his famous ... speech Pericles relates the special qualities of the Athenians, redefining many traditional Greek ...