Where was Pericles' funeral oration given?

Answer 1

Pericles wrote the speech as a sort of standard Eulogy for war heroes who died in the defense of (Greek) Democracy. It opens: Our form of government... In some ways it can be compared to the Gettysburg Address of Lincoln. It was performed by Pericles, NOT a memorial address for him, posthumously, your question seems ambivalent. Pericles was the Governor of Athens so ceremonial speech-writing fell to his hand.

Answer 2

After the first year of the 27-year Peloponnesian War he addressed the people at the funeral of the casualties of that year, making it a rallying call and encouragement to persist. Pericles later died from the plague which swept Athens and so was not there to lead the effort he called for in the oration.

Answer 3

It is the written record of a morale-boosting address he gave as encouragement to the people of Athens at the end of the first year of what was obviously going to go on for a long costly time.

The funeral was for the war dead of that first year, and he didn't want the people to have any ideas of making peace, as he had invested his reputation on wining the war, and a peace would expose him to his internal enemies who had serious thoughts about the way he had propelled them into the war and of his motives for doing so.

Answer 4

A rallying call to fight on in the war which he had precipitated.

Answer 5

In Athens.