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:

* In the funeral oration of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, her brother drew an analogy between the ancient goddess of hunting and his sister-' the most hunted person of the modern age '.

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.

Mickie sat over his second whisky-on-the-rocks in a little bar next to the funeral parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue.

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

The coffin stood on trestles in a corner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had ordered.

The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.

In " The Big Four " ( 1927 ) Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral in order to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

Achilles and Ajax play a board game with knucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites

The most distinguished funeral honors were paid to his remains, which were deposited in the temple at Possagno on 25 October 1822.

The Times reported on 6 November 1995 that Prince Charles had stated on that day to Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, after the funeral of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, that " Catholics should be able to ascend to the British throne ".

Scyld ’ s funeral helps the poet to elaborate on the glory of battle in a heroic society and how earthly possessions help define a person ‘ s importance.

* Youths riding around on horses at the funeral of a great man-Anchises and Pallas in the Aeneid and Beowulf in Beowulf.

The loss devastated Montgomery, but he insisted on throwing himself back into his work immediately after the funeral.

Holly's funeral was held on February 7, 1959, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.

During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

The funeral of the royal couple Aleksandar Obrenović and Draga Mašin on 29 May 1903 after the May Overthrow

Mumy read the eulogy at Harris ' funeral and was asked to narrate his longtime friend's life on A & E Biography that same year.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

Claudius ' ashes were interred in the Mausoleum of Augustus on 24 October, after a funeral in the manner of Augustus.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.