The public funeral
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public funerals · the customary speech · the public funeral · this burial
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On the Peace (Greek)
In a word, it was at that time a matter of regular routine to hold public funerals every year, which many both of our neighbors and of the other Hellenes used to attend, not to grieve with us for the dead, but to rejoice together at our misfortunes.
in the texts
The Funeral Speech
The State-decreed public funeral rite, including burial and the customary eulogy, being performed on the occasion of this speech.
That the State seriously concerns itself with those who die in battle it is possible to infer both from these rites in general and, in particular, from this law in accordance with which it chooses the speaker at our public funerals.
After the State decreed that those who repose in this tomb, having acquitted themselves as brave men in the war, should have a public funeral, and appointed me to the duty of delivering over them the customary speech, I began straightway to study how they might receive their due tribute of praise;
How, then, since the whole country unites in according them a public burial, and they alone receive the words of universal praise, while their kinsmen and fellow-citizens are not alone in mourning them, but every land that has the right to be called Hellas and the greater part of the whole world mourns with them, how can we do otherwise than consider them blessed of fortune?
On the Peace
Annual funerary commemorations of war dead during the disastrous imperial period.
In a word, it was at that time a matter of regular routine to hold public funerals every year, which many both of our neighbors and of the other Hellenes used to attend, not to grieve with us for the dead, but to rejoice together at our misfortunes.