A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral. Funerary customs... 12 KB (1,335 words) - 22:08, 26 April 2024 |
"Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was... 19 KB (2,552 words) - 15:25, 23 April 2024 |
Funeral oration or Funeral Oration may refer to: Eulogy Funeral oration (ancient Greece) Oration at Korean traditional funeral Pericles' Funeral Oration... 512 bytes (105 words) - 21:11, 23 August 2023 |
Demosthenes's "Funeral Oration" (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Λόγος) was delivered between August and September of 338 BC, just after the Battle of Chaeronea. It... 7 KB (1,054 words) - 09:53, 6 March 2024 |
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"... 10 KB (1,256 words) - 22:45, 27 March 2024 |
In ancient Greece, the concept of autochthones (from Ancient Greek αὐτός autos "self," and χθών chthon "soil"; i.e. "people sprung from earth itself")... 16 KB (1,576 words) - 19:03, 28 November 2023 |
and topical guide to ancient Greece: Ancient Greece – Towns of ancient Greece List of ancient Greek cities Regions of ancient Greece Peloponnese Achaea... 26 KB (2,170 words) - 22:53, 9 February 2024 |
"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... 719 bytes (78 words) - 18:08, 9 April 2021 |
during Holy Week in churches that follow the Byzantine rite Funeral oration (ancient Greece) or epitaphios logos Gorgias' text on the same Epitafios, an... 393 bytes (72 words) - 18:38, 13 November 2014 |
Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult... 58 KB (7,679 words) - 03:38, 21 April 2024 |
Roman funerary practices (redirect from Funerals in Ancient Rome) Roman funerary practices include the Ancient Romans' religious rituals concerning funerals, cremations, and burials. They were part of time-hallowed tradition... 133 KB (19,115 words) - 00:26, 25 March 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,042 words) - 18:50, 9 October 2023 |
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... 97 KB (11,521 words) - 06:08, 27 April 2024 |
contrast between Sparta and Athens, with the obligatory quote from the Funeral Oration and a long passage from Thucydides' reflections of the moral damage... 5 KB (540 words) - 11:44, 10 February 2024 |
22 Suda dictionary, entry Hippias Plato, Menexenus, 240A Lysias, Funeral Oration, 21 Justinus II, 9 Herodotus VII, 184 Kampouris (2000) Davis, pp. 9–13... 50 KB (5,440 words) - 03:59, 21 April 2024 |
Consolatio (redirect from Consolatory oration) 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... 8 KB (1,010 words) - 20:26, 5 October 2023 |
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... 44 KB (5,184 words) - 17:10, 24 April 2024 |
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... 143 KB (14,344 words) - 06:56, 4 March 2024 |
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... 19 KB (2,070 words) - 20:57, 21 February 2024 |
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... 38 KB (5,008 words) - 20:28, 4 March 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,192 words) - 05:33, 23 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (476 words) - 17:15, 18 April 2024 |
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... 9 KB (1,176 words) - 20:14, 13 February 2024 |
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'... 32 KB (4,170 words) - 20:01, 28 February 2024 |
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... 28 KB (3,511 words) - 06:11, 25 March 2024 |
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... 47 KB (4,484 words) - 14:48, 21 April 2024 |
Athenian democracy (redirect from Democracy of ancient Greece) Gagarin, M., The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek Law Cambridge University Press, 2005, p. 130. "Funeral Oration", Thucydides II.40, trans. Rex Warner... 84 KB (11,431 words) - 13:52, 19 April 2024 |
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... 50 KB (6,301 words) - 19:20, 4 March 2024 |