What were the main features of Athenian democracy according to Pericles? This document is the famous Pericles' Funeral Oration from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian Wars, easily one of the most famous speeches in Western history. You will be analyzing it with the purpose of trying to discover what Pericles considered to be the outstanding political characteristics of Athenian democracy in the fifth century bce, during the Athenian Golden Age. The assignment is actually a relatively straightforward one, and there is not much analysis involved. You just need to more or less itemize the characteristics that Pericles himself identified. Remember that you need to include quoted evidence in your paragraph. Finally, after reading the textbook and the information on the course web page, you might consider whether Pericles accurately depicted the nature of Athenian life and politics in his oration.