Kofi Opoku
ANCS 201
11 / 1 0 / 2015
How does Thucydides demonstrate the gap between theory and practice in the portion you read for class (Pericles' funeral oration and the Plague Narrative)? Give three specific examples of things that were different in theory (the oration) and practice (the plague).
Thucydides demonstrated the gap between theory and practice as Pericles speech was on Athens greatness during the war and the heroes who died in the war but on the second speech he talks to the people in a more realistic way to stay on the battlefield and continue to fight when the war was raging.
The differences in the theory and practice was the burial. The funeral oration burial performed to the heroes who died in the war was done in a special
