Right here in River City with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for Peloponnese. Pericles' funeral oration comes from a later war, the Peloponnesian War, which was a thirty year conflict between the Athenians and the Spartans. The Spartans did not embrace democracy, but instead embraced a kingship that functioned only because of a huge class of brutally mistreated slaves. But to be clear, the war was not about Athens trying to get Sparta to embrace democratic reform. Wars rarely are. It was about resources and power. And the Athenians were hardly saintly in all of this, as evidenced by the famous Melian Dialogue.