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A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (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. In ancient Greece and ...
Pericles's Funeral Oration (Perikles hält die Leichenrede) by Philipp Foltz (1852) [1] " 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 ...
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] Eulogies may be given as part of funeral services. In the United States, they take ...
The grieving father of murdered Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts insisted on "celebrating something wonderful" at the young woman's funeral on Sunday.
A Landseer dog, the breed Byron eulogized, painted by Edwin Henry Landseer, 1802–1873. " Epitaph to a Dog " (also sometimes referred to as " Inscription on the Monument to a Newfoundland Dog ") is a poem by the British poet Lord Byron. It was written in 1808 in honour of his Landseer dog, Boatswain, who had just died of rabies.
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 ...
The Rev. Al Sharpton is scheduled deliver a eulogy for a Black man who died last month after being pinned to the ground by hotel security guards in Milwaukee, his office said Tuesday. The death of ...
List of literary descriptions of cities (before 1550) Literary descriptions of cities (also known as descriptiones urbium) form a literary genre that originated in Ancient Greek epideictic rhetoric. [1][2][3][4] They can be prose or poetry. Many take the form of an urban eulogy (variously referred to as an encomium urbis, laudes urbium ...