From jgibson000@home.com Sun May 14 06:50:43 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA47132 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 06:50:42 -0700 Received: from mail.rdc1.il.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.66]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id GAA07377 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 06:50:41 -0700 Received: from home.com ([24.8.224.116]) by mail.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000514135041.GABH29387.mail.rdc1.il.home.com@home.com> for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 06:50:41 -0700 Message-ID: <391EAF81.E6241816@home.com> Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 08:52:01 -0500 From: "Jeffrey B. Gibson" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-AtHome0407 (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: occasion for, and purpose of, Demothsenes' Funeral Oration References: <391DF184.C45220E@home.com> <391E2823.C74D0475@teleline.es> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Luis H. Aguilar Polo" wrote: > I am not a scholar and maybe my response will seem simple but well, hope it > helps you, I guess you are referring to Pericles Funeral Oration for the > Athenian War Dead in the first year (431-430 BC) of the Peloponnesian War. > Luis, Thanks for your response. But as others will doubtless point out the Funeral Oration of Demosthenes and that of Pericles are two totally different things, from two totally different people at two totally different times. To see this, follow the advice you gave **me** and look up Demosthenes in the Perseus Online Encyclopedia. Yours, Jeffrey Gibson -- Jeffrey B. Gibson 7423 N. Sheridan Road #2A Chicago, Illinois 60626 e-mail jgibson000@home.com .