Talk:Pericles' Funeral Oration

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could we not get the speech itself here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.136.10.24 (talk • contribs)

well it's quite long, theres about 8 pages of it in Thucydides, (including some of his own commentary). There was a direct link to the extract on a website, rather than posting the whole speech, but that link appears to be broken at the moment. So if anyone could find an external link to use rather than typing/copying the WHOLE text into the entry, that would probably be better. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.136.45 (talk • contribs)

Shouldn't its similarity to The Gettysburg Address be mentioned? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.147.248.255 (talk • contribs)

I pasted in the chunk straight from Gettysburg Address--Konstable 13:24, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

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It was not James McPherson who showed the parallels between the Pericles' Funeral Oration and the Gettysburg Address. In the New York Review of Books McPherson reviews the book,"Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America" by Garry Wills. It is Wills who makes the parallels. I am new to editing Wikipedia, and– unsure of the proper way of doing it, but it should be done. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bonafidegenius (talk • contribs) 01:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

Well, you can just jump in and change it, nothing more to it :-) I put this in, but I actually don't know anything about this - I copied most of the paragraph about Gettysburg from the Gettysburg Address article.--Konstable 22:54, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

I've made the change for you.--Konstable 22:57, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

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I've started work on beefing this articles up. I have given it sections to rationalize the content and will start going through them. Additionally, since there is a wikisource link, I don't think we need citations that link to Perseus.com. Any objections to removing these?Jim 21:34, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Um, I'm pretty sure the translation at Wikisource is a copyvio, so I don't think we should even link to it. --Akhilleus (talk) 21:38, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

Good point, Warner's translation is Copyright 1954. But I think a better option than the rather clumsy Perseus links is personal translations, which I could do and donate to Wikisource. Or we could go with the Crawley translation, which is perfectly useable in respect of copyright, since it was published in 1874. Jim 22:37, 15 April 2007 (UTC)