Eulogy
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This page is about "eulogy"
An eulogy is a prayer or public speech usually delivered to the memory of a missing person, usually during his or her funeral ceremony of commemoration. The word derives from the Greek and means "good words".
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Eulogy is not to be confused with
- Elegy, a poem written in memory of the deceased.
- Obituary (Sections In Memoriam), a biography published post-mortem, and is often used to announce a death.
- Funeral, which refers to the ritual surrounding the funeral.
Among the most famous and noteworthy
eulogies are:
- The eulogy of Pericles for the Athenian soldiers who died during the first year of the Peloponnesian War
- The eulogy for Saint Basil of Caesarea, by St. Gregory of Nyssa
- The eulogy (fictional) by Mark Antony for Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play of the same name.
- The funeral orations of Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet:
- Funeral Oration of Anne of Austria (1667)
- Funeral Oration of Henriette de France (1669)
- Funeral Oration of Henrietta of England (1670)
- The Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln.
- Speech by André Malraux on the occasion of the transfer of the ashes of Jean Moulin to the Pantheon of Paris (1964)
