According to both the presentation and the reading, the burial cost of the men that fought in the war would be provided by the people and “a man chosen by the state, of approved wisdom and eminent reputation, pronounces over them an appropriate eulogy;” moreover, it was also stated that those who have fallen in the first war would be laid to rest in the most beautiful suburb in the city, while the ones who fought in Marathon would remain in the spot they were slain at (Thucydides 110 - 111). The person who should declare the eulogy for the fallen should be someone who personally fought along side these men, even though he may not know them personally, the mere fact that he experienced what they experienced first had would mean so much more