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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...
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    "Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was...
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    are an important source for ancient Greek culture, though Greek funerals are not as well documented as those of the ancient Romans. The Mycenaeans practiced...
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  • Funeral oration or Funeral Oration may refer to: Eulogy Funeral oration (ancient Greece) Oration at Korean traditional funeral Pericles' Funeral Oration...
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  • Demosthenes's "Funeral Oration" (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Λόγος) was delivered between August and September of 338 BC, just after the Battle of Chaeronea. It...
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    Eulogy (redirect from Funerary oration)
    several original texts related to Eulogies. Consolatio Funeral celebrant Funeral oration (ancient Greece) Obituary Panegyric Requiem Types of speeches "eulogy"...
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    of ancient Greece refers to the influence of Ancient Greece on later periods of history, from Medieval times up to the current modern era. Greek culture...
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  • In ancient Greece, the concept of autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός autos "self," and χθών chthon "soil"; i.e. "people sprung from earth itself")...
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    and topical guide to ancient Greece: Ancient Greece – Towns of ancient Greece List of ancient Greek cities Regions of ancient Greece Peloponnese Achaea...
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  • "Funeral Oration" is a speech by Lysias, one of the "Canon of Ten" Attic orators (Speech 2 in Lamb's translation). Carey, Christopher. Trials from Classical...
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  • during Holy Week in churches that follow the Byzantine rite Funeral oration (ancient Greece) or epitaphios logos Gorgias' text on the same Epitafios, an...
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    Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult...
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    Roman funerary practices include the Ancient Romans' religious rituals concerning funerals, cremations, and burials. They were part of time-hallowed tradition...
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  • Menexenus (dialogue) (category Funeral orations)
    as well as the Phaedo. The Menexenus consists mainly of a lengthy funeral oration, referencing the one given by Pericles in Thucydides' account of the...
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    Pericles (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    lauded as "the ideal type of the perfect statesman in ancient Greece" and his Funeral Oration is nowadays synonymous with the struggle for participatory...
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  • contrast between Sparta and Athens, with the obligatory quote from the Funeral Oration and a long passage from Thucydides' reflections of the moral damage...
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    22 Suda dictionary, entry Hippias Plato, Menexenus, 240A Lysias, Funeral Oration, 21 Justinus II, 9 Herodotus VII, 184 Kampouris (2000) Davis, pp. 9–13...
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  • consolatio or consolatory oration is a type of ceremonial oratory, typically used rhetorically to comfort mourners at funerals. It was one of the most popular...
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  • Public speaking (redirect from Orations)
    also studied in Ancient Greece and Rome, where it was analyzed by prominent thinkers as a central part of rhetoric. The Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle...
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    Demosthenes (category Suicides in Ancient Greece)
    θəniːz/; Greek: Δημοσθένης, romanized: Dēmosthénēs; Attic Greek: [dɛːmostʰénɛːs]; 384 – 12 October 322 BC) was a Greek statesman and orator in ancient Athens...
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    Epitaph (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    An epitaph (from Ancient Greek ἐπιτάφιος (epitáphios) 'a funeral oration'; from ἐπι- (epi-) 'at, over', and τάφος (táphos) 'tomb') is a short text honoring...
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  • Gorgias (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Gorgias (/ˈɡɔːrdʒiəs/; Greek: Γοργίας; 483–375 BC) was an ancient Greek sophist, pre-Socratic philosopher, and rhetorician who was a native of Leontinoi...
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    Isocrates (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Ancient Greek: Ἰσοκράτης [isokrátɛ̂ːs]; 436–338 BC) was an ancient Greek rhetorician, one of the ten Attic orators. Among the most influential Greek rhetoricians...
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    Philippic (redirect from Philippic Orations)
    in Cicero's time.[citation needed] They were also called the Antonian Orations by Latin author and grammarian Aulus Gellius. After the death of Caesar...
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    Panegyric (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    also to mean 'a festal oration, laudatory speech', and the adjective 'of or relating to a eulogy, flattering'. The noun Ancient Greek: πανήγυρις, romanized: panḗgyris...
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    Kairos (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    Kairos (Ancient Greek: καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'. In modern Greek, kairos also means 'weather' or 'time'...
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  • Hoi polloi (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    phrase probably became known to English scholars through Pericles' Funeral Oration, as mentioned in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Pericles...
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    November 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "Full text of Earl Spencer's Funeral Oration". BBC News. Archived from the original on 29 May 2017. Retrieved 14...
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    Gagarin, M., The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 130. "Funeral Oration", Thucydides II.40, trans. Rex Warner...
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    Thucydides (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
    of international relations theory, while his version of Pericles' Funeral Oration is widely studied by political theorists, historians, and students...
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