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  2. Pericles's Funeral Oration - Wikipedia

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    "Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. [2] The speech was supposed to have been delivered by Pericles , an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the Peloponnesian War (BC 431–404) as a part of the annual ...

  3. Funeral oration (ancient Greece) - Wikipedia

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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.

  4. Demosthenes's Funeral Oration - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. On the Murder of Eratosthenes - Wikipedia

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    On the Murder of Eratosthenes" is a speech by Lysias, one of the "Canon of Ten" Attic orators. The speech is the first in the transmitted Lysianic corpus and is therefore also known as Lysias 1 . The speech was given by a certain Euphiletos, defending himself against the charge that he murdered Eratosthenes, after he supposedly caught ...

  6. eSpeak - Wikipedia

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    eSpeak is a free and open-source, cross-platform, compact, software speech synthesizer.It uses a formant synthesis method, providing many languages in a relatively small file size. eSpeakNG (Next Generation) is a continuation of the original developer's project with more feedback from native speakers.

  7. Rhetoric to Alexander - Wikipedia

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    Greek text, edited by Immanuel Bekker, Oxford 1837 Greek text with Latin commentary edited by Leonhard von Spengel , Leipzig, 1847 English translations: Aristotle's Rhetoric to King Alexander (London, 1686); De Rhetorica ad Alexandrum , translated by E.S. Forster, Oxford, 1924 (beginning on p. 231 of the PDF file)

  8. List of Classical Greek phrases - Wikipedia

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    The source is the sixth book of Homer's Iliad, (Iliad 6. 208) in a speech Glaucus delivers to Diomedes: " Hippolocus begat me. I claim to be his son, and he sent me to Troy with strict instructions: Ever to excel, to do better than others, and to bring glory to your forebears, who indeed were very great ...

  9. Erotic Essay - Wikipedia

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    The "Erotic Essay" (Ancient Greek: Ἐρωτικός) was one of the two surviving epideictic speeches (along with the Funeral Oration) attributed to the Athenian statesman and orator Demosthenes. Ian Worthington dates the speech to between the late 350s BC and 335 BC. [1]