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.

Gustloff was given a state funeral in his birthplace of Schwerin in Mecklenburg with Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Göring, Heinrich Himmler, Martin Bormann and Joachim von Ribbentrop in attendance.

On 17 November, he was given a state funeral in Düsseldorf, which was attended by Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop with considerable publicity.

Ribbentrop himself tried to curry Edward's favor by using the Duke of Coburg, Edward's cousin and Nazi party member as an emissary, the latter brazenly attending the funeral of George V in his SA uniform.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

She described them as simply " the little people in Leicester ", leaving a cold, nondescript note and bouquet at the funeral on their behalf.

Non-relatives attending the funeral included three communist associates of Marx: Friedrich Lessner, imprisoned for three years after the Cologne communist trial of 1852 ; G. Lochner, whom Engels described as " an old member of the Communist League "; and Carl Schorlemmer, a professor of chemistry in Manchester, a member of the Royal Society, and a communist activist involved in the 1848 Baden revolution.

Davidson says that while attempts have been made to connect Sleipnir with hobby horses and steeds with more than four feet that appear in carnivals and processions, but that " a more fruitful resemblance seems to be on the bier on which a dead man is carried in the funeral procession by four bearers ; borne along thus, he may be described as riding on a steed with eight legs.

In both ancient Japanese collections, the Nihongi and Kojiki, Ame-no-uzeme ’ s dance is described as asobi, which in old Japanese language means a ceremony that is designed to appease the spirits of the departed, and which was conducted at funeral ceremonies.

" Richardson did oblige in reading the poem at Mantle's funeral, something he described as being extremely difficult.

In Guðrúnarkviða I as Herborg tells of her grief in having prepared funeral arrangements for various members of her family, her children and her husbands, described it as " arranging their journey to Hel.

The funeral of Patroclus is described in book 23 of the Iliad.

Seider's death was glorified in the Boston Gazette, and his funeral was described as one of the largest of the time in Boston.

But the Derby title was the one she preferred to be known by, and it is the one by which she is described on her funeral monument, which is surely one of the finest of its time anywhere in England.

Joe Henry described the funeral, which was " 2 and a half hours long, included many eulogies, some spontaneous gospel singing ; some shouting, some wailing, a fainting, and a daughter who hopped on the balls of her feet and spoke in tongues as punctuation to her scripted remarks.

In the early stages of the First Punic War ( 264 BC ) the first known Roman gladiatorial munus was held, described as a funeral blood-rite to the manes of a Roman military aristocrat.

His funeral Mass was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral on October 25, 1885 ; during the eulogy, Archbishop James Gibbons described him as " a kind father, a devoted friend, a watchful shepherd, a fearless leader and, above all, an impartial judge.

It is known from artistic evidence on pottery that the sport existed in the Mycenaean world, but the first literary reference to a chariot race is the one described by Homer, at the funeral games of Patroclus.

Although he had been repeatedly imprisoned and persecuted, tens of thousands of mourners attended his funeral, described by one commentator as a caravan of peace, carrying a message of love from Pashtuns east of the Khyber to those on the west, marching through the historic Khyber Pass from Peshawar to Jalalabad.

Gilmour described Part IX in an interview as " a slow 4 / 4 funeral march ... the parting musical eulogy to Syd ".

The funeral of Patroclus is described in book 23 of the Iliad.

More recently, the surviving apostles will typically meet in the Salt Lake Temple on the first Sunday following the late president's funeral, to select and set apart the next president of the church ( as was done in 1973, and described in detail by President Tanner to BYU students in 1978 ).

In the Iliad there are extensive descriptions of funeral games held in honour of deceased warriors, and engaging in sport is described as the occupation of the noble and wealthy, who have no need to do manual labour themselves.

The Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo was first described in 1794 by the English naturalist George Shaw as Psittacus funereus, its specific name funereus relating to its dark and sombre plumage, as if dressed for a funeral.

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny was buried in a state funeral lasting five days, in what LIFE magazine described as the " biggest military funeral France had seen since the death of Marshal Foch in 1929 ".

Rather, the movement's core was the tragic music which followed the invasion section, which the composer described as " a funeral march or, rather, a requiem.

The Canadian funeral described above typifies the funerary service.