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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.
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]
The pastoral elegy is a poem about both death and idyllic rural life. Often, the pastoral elegy features shepherds. The genre is actually a subgroup of pastoral poetry, as the elegy takes the pastoral elements and relates them to expressing grief at a loss.
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 ...
The laudatio Iuliae amitae ("Eulogy for Aunt Julia") is a funeral oration that Julius Caesar said in 68 BC to honor his dead aunt Julia, the widow of Marius. [1] [2] The introduction of this laudatio funebris is reproduced in the work Divus Iulius by the Roman historian Suetonius: [3]
This inscription is traditionally known as the "Laudatio Turiae," "The Praise of Turia," [3] [4] because its subject was generally identified with Curia, the wife of Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, consul in 19 BC, [5] [6] on the basis of comparison with the histories of Valerius Maximus (6, 7, 2) and Appian (Bell.civ. 4, 44), which report that Turia saved her husband in much the same way ...
Knut Hamsun has been described as anti-British and pro-German, and as sympathizing with the Nazi cause. He openly supported Hitler, but even though Nasjonal Samling eventually formed a government controlled by the German Reichskommissar after the war broke out, it is clear to historians he was never actually a self-enrolled party member (in a civil lawsuit, he was found to have been a member ...
Eulogy on King Philip is a printed text of a speech delivered by William Apess in 1836 to, among other things, commemorate Metacom, also known as King Phillip, 160 years after his death. The speech was delivered at the prestigious [ 1 ] Odeon lecture hall on Federal Street in Boston, Massachusetts .