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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.
Funeral Oration" is a speech by Lysias, one of the "Canon of Ten" Attic orators (Speech 2 in Lamb's translation). Sources. Carey, Christopher.
Antam Sanskar (Gurmukhi: ਅੰਤਮ ਸੰਸਕਾਰ atama sasakāra) refers to the funeral rites in Sikhism. Antam (or Antim) means "final", while sanskar means "rite". [1] In Sikhism, death is considered a natural process and God's will or Hukam. To a Sikh, birth and death are closely associated, because they are both part of the cycle of ...
Now that the wedding is approaching, the bride is keen to prevent the grandmother's cough from spoiling her special day. "I want to sit her at the back of the ceremony and far away from us during ...
A woman whose grandmother couldn’t be there to watch her walk down the aisle stopped to visit her in the hospital on her wedding day. Bride Jessica Colalillo, 24, tied the knot to her long-time ...
Bethany Johnston-Sweeney got married on Aug. 8 at the Stirk House Hotel in England with her grandmother by her side Bride Asks 83-Year-Old Grandma to Be Her Bridesmaid, Coins the New Term ...
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]
A soon-to-be bride uninvited 25 people from her Halloween wedding after her mother and grandmother called it "satanic." They seemingly convinced other family members to do the same and asked her ...