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Demosthenes prompted the fortification of Athens and was appointed by ecclesia to the duty of delivering over them the customary funeral speech, honoring the Athenians who died for their city. [1] Although the Athenian statesman was the leader of the anti-Macedonian faction, his countrymen chose him for this honorable duty and not Demades or ...
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.
We can be reasonably sure that Pericles delivered a speech at the end of the first year of the war, but there is no consensus as to what degree Thucydides's record resembles Pericles's actual speech. [ b ] Another confusing factor is that Pericles is known to have delivered another funeral oration in BC 440 during the Samian War . [ 8 ]
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.
Oprah Winfrey has shared the emotional eulogy for her father, Vernon Winfrey, who died at age 89 on July 8, 2022.
Melania Trump delivered an emotional eulogy speech at her late mother Amalija Knavs’ funeral service. “My mother, the epitome of elegance and grace, exemplified the essence of a true woman ...
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.
High school class valedictorian Alem Hadzic was unusually somber before delivering his commencement speech on May 16. “People were coming over to wish me luck and I was kind of blowing them off ...