Q. What was the purpose of Pericles funeral oration?
The most important thing to remember about the Funeral Oration is that it is a speech, intended to persuade its listeners. Pericles praises Athens so that people will keep fighting; he praises the sacrifices of the dead so that others will imitate them.
Q. What is most likely the speaker’s reason for addressing the mourners of the war dead?
What is most likely the speaker’s reason for addressing the mourners of the war dead? A. To urge an end to conflict and overthrow the current government. To lead the mourners to petition for surrender to the enemies of the state.
Q. What change did Pericles support to expand democracy Athens?
Pericles strengthened democracy in Athens by paying public officials. Pericles expanded the empire by building a strong naval fleet. Pericles rebuilt and beautified Athens.
Q. What was a major contribution of Athenian leader Pericles to government?
Why is Pericles important? Pericles was an Athenian statesman. Under his leadership Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire flourished, making Athens the political and cultural focus of Greece between the Greco-Persian and Peloponnesian wars.
Q. How did Pericles champion Athenian democracy?
How did Pericles champion Athenian democracy? Encouraged people to participate in government and paid public officials. Athenians had direct democracy which meant that all citizens could participate directly in the government. It influenced American democracy because we vote for our president.
Q. What did Pericles believe?
To admirers of democracy he is almost without a peer. The society which he led was imbued with his ideas—an overmastering love of Athens, a passionate belief in freedom for Athenians, and a faith in the ability of man. Pericles’s trust in the intellect was shared by Athens’s leading thinkers.
Q. How did Pericles impact the world?
Pericles transformed his city’s alliances into an empire and graced its Acropolis with the famous Parthenon. His policies and strategies also set the stage for the devastating Peloponnesian War, which would embroil all Greece in the decades following his death.
Q. What did Pericles teach?
Pericles grew up in the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens. His family was wealthy and his father, Xanthippus, was a popular general. Because of his family’s wealth, Pericles had some of the best teachers in Athens. He loved to learn and he studied subjects such as music, politics, ethics, and philosophy.
Q. What was Pericles nickname?
The Greeks – Pericles. Nicknamed ‘The Olympian’ because of his aloof manner, Pericles brought a new authority and stability to Athenian politics.
Q. How many Athenians died from the plague?
75,000
Q. What jobs did Athenian slaves do?
A fundamental part of economy, the most prized slaves worked as tutors and police officials, and one group of elite slaves was even empowered to herd citizens to the assembly with a long rope dipped in paint!
Q. What is a Spartan shield called?
Aspis
