Pericles vs. Lincoln

1. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg address and Pericles's are similar.
1. They were both given to honor soldiers that had died in civil war.
2. Lincoln's speech took place after the battle at Gettysburg in the US Civil War.
3. Pericles's oration took pace shortly into the Peloponnesian Wars.
4. The Gettysburg Address is a better funeral oration because he does a better job of honoring the soldiers who gave their lives.

2. Appeal to Patriotism
1. Lincoln does a better job appealing to patriotism because he excites the people to keep working to be a new free nation.
2. "...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." http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/al16/speeches/gettys.htm .