After the first year of the Peloponnesian War, the leader of this city offered "comfortÂ…not condolence" in a notable funeral oration that also stated that favoring "the many instead of the few" defines democracy.
In one work, the representatives of this city say that the "Hope is a good comforter in the hour of danger," but that men see hope as "she is at the moment of their fall." In another work, the speaker doubts if the "world can produce a man whoÂ… is equal to so many emergencies, and graced by so happy a versatility" as a man of this city. Representatives of this city state that the "powerful (*) exact what they can, and the weak grant what they must" when trying to bully the inhabitants of Melos to surrender. After the first year of the Peloponnesian War, the leader of this city offered "comfortÂ…not condolence" in a notable funeral oration that also stated that favoring "the many instead of the few" defines democracy. Thucydides was a historian from, for 10 points, what city home to Pericles?
In one work, the representatives of this city say that the "Hope is a good comforter in the hour of danger," but that men see hope as "she is at the moment of their fall."
Athens