Oratory and Oral Performance in Pre-Modern Africa and the Americas

From Fordham University’s Ancient History Sourcebook, The Funeral Oration of Pericles over the Athenian war dead, as reported by Thucydides in The PeloponnesianWars, translated by Richard Crawley.
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The meeting of Moctezuma and Cortes, as reported by Cortes in a letter to the Emperor Charles V in 1521, available on the Web site of a History course taught by Professor Michael Scardaville at the University of South Carolina. The source of this quotation is Hernando Cortes, Five Letters of Cortes to the Emperor (W.W. Norton & Company, New York and London, 1991), p. 65.
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This account of the speech of Moctezuma to Cortes comes from The Florentine Codex. The Web site is maintained by Glenn Watson, who teaches History at New Century Technology High School in Huntsville, AL.
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Two poems by Nezahualcoytol, King of Texcoco (1431-72), from the American Indian Heritage Foundation Web site; the translations are by John Curl, The Flowers Songs ofHungry Coyote: Poet of Ancient Mexico (Bilingual Press-Arizona State University: forthcoming).
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A unit on African Praise Songs for a course on “Cultures and Literatures of Africa” taught by Cora Agatucci at Central Oregon Community College.
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