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BBC Radio 4
28 April 2015

2/5 - From Funerals to Plague

Today: from the glorification to the devastation of Athens - Pericles' great funeral speech and the plague that followed.

Abridger: Tom Holland is an award-winning novelist and historian, specialising in the classical and medieval periods, who has adapted Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Virgil for the BBC.

Reader: David Horovitch
Producer: Justine Willett.