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Great oratory can provoke, inspire, and motivate. Delivered with passion and sincerity, some speeches have been known to change the course of history. But the spoken word can also deceive and manipulate, and a master of propaganda can be just as persuasive as the most genuine and forthright of speakers.
A prominent and influential Greek statesman and general of Athens during its golden age, Pericles was also a skilled orator. His celebrated Funeral Oration, delivered at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BCE) as a part of the annual public funeral for the war dead, was effectively a glorification of Athens' achievements designed to stir the spirits of a nation at war.