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  2. Declamation - Wikipedia

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    In Ancient Rome, declamation was a genre of ancient rhetoric and a mainstay of the Roman higher education system. It was separated into two component subgenres, the controversia, speeches of defense or prosecution in fictitious court cases, and the suasoria, in which the speaker advised a historical or legendary figure as to a course of action.

  3. Public speaking - Wikipedia

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    His first public speech was in the court proceeding he brought against his three guardians. [28] After that, Demosthenes continued to practice public speaking. He is known for sticking pebbles into his mouth to improve his pronunciation, talking while running so that he would not lose his breath, and practicing speaking in front of a mirror to ...

  4. Pericles's Funeral Oration - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Dispositio - Wikipedia

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    The exordium (/ ɛ ɡ ˈ z ɔːr d i ə m /; meaning "beginning" in Latin; from exordiri, meaning "to begin") was the introductory portion of an oration. The term is Latin and the Greek equivalent was termed the proem or prooimion .

  6. Ireland unfree shall never be at peace - Wikipedia

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    Clarke chose Patrick Pearse, a barrister and schoolteacher who was known as the foremost orator of the time, to give the graveside oration. At that time republican leaders were refraining from making inflammatory speeches for fear of imprisonment at a crucial time in the preparations for a rising.

  7. Oration on the Dignity of Man - Wikipedia

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    The Oration on the Dignity of Man (De hominis dignitate in Latin) is a public discourse composed in 1486 by Pico della Mirandola, an Italian scholar and philosopher of the Renaissance. It remained unpublished until 1496. [ 1 ]

  8. Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God

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    A modern reconstruction of the Statue of Zeus at Olympia, topic of the oration.. The Olympic Oration or On Man's First Conception of God (Ancient Greek: Ὀλυμπικὸς ἢ περὶ τῆς πρώτης τοῦ θεοῦ ἐννοίας, romanized: Olympikos ē peri tēs protēs tou theou ennoias, Oration 12 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom at the Olympic games ...

  9. Diogenes or On Virtue - Wikipedia

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    Diogenes or On Virtue (Ancient Greek: Διογένης ἢ περὶ ἀρετῆς, romanized: Diogenēs e peri aretēs, Oration 8 in modern corpora) is a speech delivered by Dio Chrysostom between AD 82 and 96, [1] which is presented as a speech delivered by the Cynic philosopher Diogenes of Sinope at the Isthmian Games.