Essay outline Is there a link between Lincoln's The Gettysburg Address and Pericles' Funeral Oration

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Both Lincoln and Thucydides wrote simmilar pieces about sacrifice and freedom.

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Thucydides wrote that sacrifice was needed to help save city of Athens. Thucydides wrote "Such is the Athens for which these men, in the assertion of their resolve not to lose her, nobly fought and died; and well may every one of their survivors be ready to suffer in her cause" (Pericles).


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Lincoln wrote about the need for sacrifice to save the nation. Lincoln wrote "that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth" ( Lincoln)


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Thucidides wrote about the great power of Athens. He wrote "we have forced every sea and land to be the highway of our daring, and everywhere, whether for evil or for good, have left imperishable monuments behind us" (Pericles).

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Sources:
Ancient History Sourcebook:Pericles' Funeral Oration. Thucydides. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/pericles-funeralspeech.html.

The Gettysburg Address. Abraham Lincoln. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys.htm.