funeral orations
Words honoring deceased
Funeral orations are formal speeches honoring the dead, delivered at memorial services or burials.
The tradition stretches back to ancient Greece, where such speeches praised the deceased's virtues and contributions.
A funeral oration may celebrate an individual life or, like Pericles' famous address, commemorate many fallen at once: The senator delivered the funeral oration for the slain president.
- wakePath left in water
- memorial serviceEvent honoring the deceased
- graveside serviceFuneral conducted at burial location
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- last wordsTerminal utterance
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- Byzantine textshagiographies, hagiography, homilies, histories, historiography
- Greek oratoryDemosthenes, Antiphon, rhetor, tetralogies, tetralogy
- Roman oratorypolitical rhetoric
- Roman rhetoricCicero, eloquence, rhetoric, rostra, declamation
- biographical writingshagiographies, autobiographies, biographical sketches, vitae, confessions
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Ceremonial reception speeches
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