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In Eulogy of Dead Writers, written during the Twentieth Dynasty of the New Kingdom, a stanza lists the names of writers famous for their great works, most of whom are authors of noted sebayt from the Middle Kingdom: Is there anyone here like Hordedef? Is there another like Imhotep? There is no family born for us like Neferty, and Khety their ...
Oprah Winfrey has shared the emotional eulogy for her father, Vernon Winfrey, who died at age 89 on July 8, 2022.
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral.Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
The next earliest example is by an anonymous author, probably of the 1st century BCE, lamenting the death of Bion; this poem has sometimes been attributed to the Hellenistic poet Moschus. [ 8 ] Virgil's "Eclogue 5," written in the 1st century BCE, is the most imitated ancient model of the pastoral elegy.
In his eulogy, her father described the circumstances he believes led to his daughter's death. "Mandisa fell down in her bedroom," he told the congregation , as seen in a YouTube video of the service.
Watch Biden deliver former President Jimmy Carter's eulogy. President Joe Biden, touches the casket containing the remains of Jimmy Carter during the national funeral service for former President ...
George W. Bush delivers the eulogy at Ronald Reagan's state funeral, June 2004. A eulogy (from εὐλογία, eulogia, Classical Greek, eu for "well" or "true", logia for "words" or "text", together for "praise") is a speech or writing in praise of a person, especially one who recently died or retired, or as a term of endearment. [1] [2] [3]
Father’s Day is the day set aside each year for appreciating our dads, and it’s a day perfect for father-daughter quotes. The history of Father’s Day is a story of the movement to recognize ...