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Quotation from Pericles' Funeral Oration by Pericles

“For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb”

Pericles

Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.43, trans. Richard Crawley (1874)

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The fallen are remembered not only at the public sepulchre but wherever their deeds are known.

Citation: "For heroes have the whole earth for their tomb" — Pericles, Pericles' Funeral Oration, Book II.43, trans. Richard Crawley (1874). (id pericles-funeral-oration-q6)

Portrait: Discurso funebre pericles, Philipp Foltz, Public domain.

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