Seriously? Fine. Trouble. 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.