The Funeral Oration was recorded by Thucydides in book two of his famous History of the Peloponnesian War. Several funeral orations from classical Athens are extant, which seem to corroborate Thucydides' assertion that this was a regular feature of Athenian funerary custom in wartime. The last part of the ceremony was a speech delivered by a prominent Athenian citizen chosen by the state. Finally they were buried at a public grave (at Kerameikos). Then a funeral procession was held, with ten cypress coffins carrying the remains, one for each of the Athenian tribes, and another left symbolically empty for the missing or those whose remains were unable to be recovered. The remains of the dead were left in a tent for three days so that offerings could be made. It was an established Athenian practice by the late 5th century BCE to hold a public funeral in honour of all those who had died in war. Main article: Funeral oration (ancient Greece)
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