Pericles' Funeral Oration
"Our constitution is called a democracy because power is in the hands not of a minority but of the
whole people. When it is a question of settling private disputes, everyone is equal before the law,
When it is a question of putting one person before another in positions of public responsibility, what
counts is not membership of a particular class, but the actual ability which the man poweves. No one,
is kept (out of government) because of poverty."
---Pericles, as recorded by Thucydides,
History of the Peloponnesian War
How did the Greeks apply the law?
a. Everyone was equal.
b. Women were better,
C. Poor people were better,
d. Rich people were better.
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