Of this, examples are legion: Pericles speaking his funeral oration in Ancient Greece's extremity after Thermopylae and making it a testament of freedom ; ;

Octavius delivered the funeral oration for his grandmother.

According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration:

An epitaph ( from Greek epitaphion " a funeral oration " from ἐπί epi " at, over " and τάφος taphos " tomb ") is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively.

He was given a secular funeral, and the funeral oration was delivered by the American Moncure D. Conway, the secularist after whom Conway Hall was later named.

He was elected quaestor for 69 BC, and during that year he delivered the funeral oration for his aunt Julia.

He gave a funeral oration on Queen Mary.

The " Inner Kerameikos " was the former " potters ' quarter " within the city and " Outer Kerameikos " covers the cemetery and also the Dēmósion Sēma ( δημόσιον σῆμα, public graveyard ) just outside the city walls, where Pericles delivered his funeral oration in 431 BC.

Examples are Pericles ' funeral oration in 427 B. C. E.

A celebrated example is Pericles ' funeral oration, which heaps honour on the dead and includes a defence of democracy:

* Salonina Matidia, a niece of Trajan dies, Hadrian delivers her a funeral oration and granted her a temple in Rome.

Theodore composed a long funeral oration, the Laudatio Platonis, which remains one of the most important sources for the history of the family.

* The funeral oration on his mother.

* The funeral oration on his uncle Plato ( Theodori Studitae Oratio funebris in Platonem ejus patrem spiritualem, PG 99, pp. 803 – 850 ).

His ashes were interred at Chichester Cathedral in West Sussex, with Bishop George Bell giving the memorial oration at the funeral.

Despite the justification of Venetian embroilment in the terraferma that was offered in Foscari's funeral oration, delivered by the humanist senator and historian Bernardo Giustiniani, and some encouraging notable victories, the war was extremely costly to Venice, whose real source of wealth and power was at sea, and to her ally Florence ; they were eventually overcome by the forces of Milan under the leadership of Francesco Sforza.

* Caesar's murder, the funeral, Antony's oration, the reading of the will and the arrival of Octavius all take place on the same day in the play.

His funeral oration was given by the Jesuit Charles de la Rue.

As a preacher his reputation was so great that in 1509, during which both King Henry VII and the Lady Margaret died, Fisher was appointed to preach the funeral oration on both occasions, the texts being still extant.

But in AD 29 when she finally fell ill and died, he remained on Capri, pleading pressure of work and sending Caligula to deliver the funeral oration.

Elizabeth, through her funeral oration ( years later ) by her second husband Sir Thomas Higgons vigorously denied this.

The Romans generally confined the panegyric to the living, and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead.

In Marc Antony's funeral oration in Julius Caesar, he says, " For Brutus is an honourable man ; So are they all ; all honourable men.

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The funeral cortege of Diana, Princess of Wales, on route to Westminster Abbey from Kensington Palace.

** The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.

Her death came just one year after that of her daughter's former sister-in-law Diana, Princess of Wales, whose funeral Susan and Sarah had both attended in Westminster Abbey.

The recordings were created by UK comedian Chris Morris, who has used similar techniques in the past, most notably in his edited version of the eulogy at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

When the royal train visited after the public funeral for Diana, it travelled instead to Long Buckby railway station.

It was also used as a setting for I would be true by Howard Arnold Walter at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales:

In 1997, he reported on the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

He was also in the media spotlight as the senior Metropolitan Police Service spokesman for the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales and after the 7 July 2005 London bombings.

Diana, Princess of Wales, is where her coffin was kept for a few days at the Chapel Royal at the Palace before being taken to Kensington Palace on the eve of her funeral at the Westminster Abbey in September 1997.

Diana, Princess of Wales's coffin spent its last night in London at the Palace, before the Princess's funeral at the Westminster Abbey on 6 September 1997.

However, her hardest and most challenging assignments were when she had to report on the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997.

Wet Wet Wet played there in September 1997, but their performance had to be postponed by a day to avoid clashing with the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

During his ten years at the BBC he also presented the news on BBC World and took part in various special events such as the 1997 general election and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

* The hymn form of the prayer was also a part of the funeral for Diana, Princess of Wales on 6 September 1997.

** 6 September – The funeral of Diana Princess of Wales is presented on BBC Radio & Television and aired to over 200 countries worldwide.

Many of the features of a state funeral are shared by other types of funerals — a royal ceremonial funeral ( for example, that of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and Diana, Princess of Wales ) often has a lying in state and Westminster Abbey service.

Although technically following her divorce from the Prince of Wales in 1996, Diana, Princess of Wales was no longer a member of the Royal Family, and as such not entitled to a state funeral, the large ourpouring of public grief following her death lead the Prime Minister Tony Blair to recommend such a funeral.

He was portrayed by actor Douglas Reith in the 2006 film The Queen in his capacity as Lord Chamberlain, planning the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

On 31 August 1997, Diana died after a car crash in Paris and the Earl delivered the eulogy at her funeral service held at Westminster Abbey six days later.

He first came to prominence in the USA due to acting as an expert on the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1997, and he was later in a similar role during the CNN broadcast of the death of the Queen Mother and on the wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles.

Seven years after Anne's House of Dreams, Anne visits Diana Wright and her daughter, Anne Cordelia, in Avonlea following the funeral of Gilbert's father.