primary form of oration through the mid-20th century. After World War II and the increased use of film and television, the Latin oration style began to...

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

Isthmian Oration may refer to: Diogenes or the Isthmian Oration, Oration 9 by Dio Chrysostom Isthmian Oration on Poseidon, Oration 46 by Aelius Aristides...

Olympic Oration or Olympian Oration may refer to: Olympic Oration, a mostly lost speech by Gorgias Olympic Oration (Lysias), Oration 33 by Lysias Olympic...

oration or Funeral Oration may refer to: eulogy funeral sermon, funeral address structured around exposition of a text from the Bible Funeral oration...

The Catilinarian orations (Latin: Marci Tullii Ciceronis orationes in Catilinam; also simply the Catilinarians) are four speeches given in 63 BC by Marcus...

public oratory, it was Everett's oration that was slated to be the "Gettysburg address" that day. His now seldom-read oration was 13,607 words long and lasted...

The Harveian Oration is a yearly lecture held at the Royal College of Physicians of London. It was instituted in 1656 by William Harvey, discoverer of...

Sir Donald Bradman Oration is an Australian Cricket calendar event which honours the career, contribution and memory of one of the proclaimed greatest-ever...

closing words of the graveside oration of Patrick Pearse at the funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa on 1 August 1915. The oration roused Irish republican feeling...