Demosthenes's "Funeral Oration" (Greek: Ἐπιτάφιος Λόγος) was delivered between August and September of 338 BC, just after the Battle of Chaeronea. It and...

"Pericles's Funeral Oration" (Ancient Greek: Περικλέους Επιτάφιος) is a famous speech from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. The speech was...

Mnesibulus, while Schaefer recognises as genuine only twenty-nine orations. Of Demosthenes's corpus political speeches, J. H. Vince singles out five as spurious:...

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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ancient world: Demosthenes of ancient Athens, Cato the Elder and Cicero of ancient Rome. The term itself is derived from Demosthenes's speeches in 351...

hindered by the obscurity of his condition. — Thucydides, Pericles' Funeral Oration His family's nobility and wealth allowed him to fully pursue his inclination...

Athens, and that originally there may have been only one Pandion. Demosthenes' Funeral Oration (338 BC) makes the father of the famous sisters Procne and Philomela—usually...

fortune. According to Pliny the Elder (NH VII.30) he could sell a single oration for twenty talents. However, his weak voice meant that he was not himself...

"Pericles's Funeral Oration" by the Greek statesman Pericles, significant because it departed from the typical formula of Athenian funeral speeches and...