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The Funeral Oration
Greek Drama
The Rhetorical Triangle
Philosophy
Thucydides
100

When Pericles delivered the Funeral Oration, the funeral was being held for this group of people; Pericles spent precious little of his time talking about them.

Who are the war dead?

100

Theatron, literally the "seeing place" in Greek, gives us this modern word for a building in which plays are performed.

What is theater?

100

The lower left corner of the rhetorical triangle asks a reader to identify this element of a text first.

Who is the speaker?

100
This early Greek philosopher called himself the gadfly, and made it a point to question everything.
Who is Socrates?
100

Thucydides was one of the first of this profession, which I guess makes Dr. Murry his descendant, in a way.

What is an historian?

200

In his History of the Peloponnesian War, in which the funeral oration is recorded, Thucydides immediately follows Pericles' praise of Athens with an account of this event.

What is the plague of Athens?

200
In Greek tragedy, one character must suffer a fall. This character is typically known as the Tragic what.
What is a tragic hero?
200
The lower right corner of the rhetorical triangle asks readers to consider this, to whom the text is being directed.

What is the audience?

200
Socrates' greatest student was this man, in whose dialogues Socrates frequently appears as a character?
Who is Plato?
200

Thucydides recorded an oration given during the Pelopennesian War by this statesmen, the son of Xanthippus?

Who is Pericles?

300

Pericles main point in the funeral oration was to praise this form of government, which he called an 'example to others to imitate"

What is democracy?

300
The greek theater was in the open air, so actors' voices would been amplified by these, which were worn over their faces?
What are masks?
300

The fact that the funeral oration was written during a war is relevant to this part of the rhetorical triangle?

What is the occasion, context?

300
Greek philosophy is imbued with the sense that the universe is orderly and directed by this organizing principle, a Greek term that is sometimes translated as "word."
What is logos?
300

Thucydides was convinced that the events that had sparked the Peloponnesian war would happen again.  Thus, among his potential audience he included this very broad class of people?

Who are all people?

400

Pericles claimed in the Funeral Oration that no enemy had yet met their full force.  Part of this was due to his own strategy, in which he avoided direct conflict with the Spartan army and chose instead to hide behind the so called long these, which connected Athens to its port city.

What are walls?

400

Anagnorisis is a moment of this, when a critical discovery is made by a character in the tragedy?

What is recognition?

400

The upper part of the triangle asks the audience to consider this, the main point of the text.

What is the message?

400
Literally meaning "wise-ones", some of the targets of the earliest philosophers were these people, who taught rhetorical skills to the people of Athens.
Who are the sophists?
400
Thucydides identifies an increase in this as associated with the plague?
What is lawlessness?
500

Near the end of the Funeral Oration Pericles declared that the virtue (or arete) of the wives present consisted in being least talked about among men in either of these two categories?

What are praise and blame?

500

The culmination of a Greek tragedy occurs at this moment, which shares its name with the end of a Greek boxing match.

What is the climax?

500
Rhetorical skill was especially prized in ancient Athens because of the absence of this profession.
What are lawyers?
500
The main question the Republic seeks to answer is "what is this"
What is justice?
500
Like Pericles, Thucydides also held this office, one of the few elected offices in Greece?
What is strategos?