Antique 1880 French Collection Funeral Orations of Eloquence Leather Book

  

This antique French book is a rare find for any literature enthusiast. The leather bound book, published in 1880 by FAUCHEUX, Imprimeur - Libraire in Lyon, contains the original text of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet's "Pericles's Funeral Oration". The book is a limited edition, 1st edition and is in its original form. The book is not illustrated and is in French language. It is a unit type book and the unit quantity is one.

The book is a part of the Antique French Collection and is perfect for collectors and researchers. Pericles's Funeral Oration (Ancient Greek:???????????????????) is a famous speech from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. [2] The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (BC 431-404) as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead. The Funeral Oration was recorded by Thucydides in book two of his famous History of the Peloponnesian War. Although Thucydides records the speech in the first person as if it were a word for word record of what Pericles said, there can be little doubt that he edited the speech at the very least. Thucydides says early in his History that the speeches presented are not verbatim records, but are intended to represent the main ideas of what was said and what was, according to Thucydides, "called for in the situation". [5] We can be reasonably sure that Pericles delivered a speech at the end of the first year of the war, but there is no consensus as to what degree Thucydides's record resembles Pericles's actual speech. [b] Another confusing factor is that Pericles is known to have delivered another funeral oration in BC 440 during the Samian War. [8] It is possible that elements of both speeches are represented in Thucydides's version. Nevertheless, Thucydides was extremely meticulous in his documentation, and records the varied certainty of his sources each time. Significantly he begins recounting the speech by saying: "?????????????????? "Pericles, son of Xanthippos, spoke like this".