Pericles

Five speeches from the legendary orators Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cicero, and Pericles. 431 BCE: Pericles' Funeral Oration is a valedictory and eulogy for the great age of Athenian democracy. Reported by Thucydides, it was given at the first annual public funeral for casualties of the Peloponnesian War. That war ended twenty-seven years later with the democratic government of Athens overthrown by an oligarchy known as The Four Hundred. 324BCE:...

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Set in Southeast Asia in 1942, this is the true story of two women prisoners of war whose friendship survived starvation, beatings, torture, and separation.