The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
That Athens had the resources necessary to defeat the Peloponnesian League and would win if the Athenians organised their empire and its resources, and kept their nerve.
The purpose of the funeral oration is not only to respect the departed, but also to instill the citizens' national pride and a passion to fight for Athens.
Antony, in his funeral oration for Caesar, repeated the phrase, "Brutus said he (meaning Caesar) was ambitious and Brutus is an honorable man," in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
Because he had been chosen to deliver the funeral oration as a consul for a consul, a friend for a friend and a Kinsman for a Kinsman. Being related to Caesar through the mother .
Antony was appealing to the emotions of the mob; Brutus was appealing to their intelligence. Antony knew that the kind of rabble-rousing he had in mind would be effective in making them do crazy things (like killing Cinna the poet), and allowing him to eventually become dictator. Politically, it works; it succeeded in doing all that Antony wanted. But does that make it better? Brutus's argument was more intellectually satisfying, more grounded in morality and good governance. It was less effective but more right.
The funeral oration was important to them because it not only honored their dead (as was tradition) but he praised democracy, praised Athens, and encouraged the Athenians to fight bravely for their city.
In the individual participation in the democracy
He told the widows to end their grief, that the children of dead soldier would be cared for by the state, and that Athens would win the war which he had started (27 years later, it lost the war).
That Athens had the resources necessary to defeat the Peloponnesian League and would win if the Athenians organised their empire and its resources, and kept their nerve.
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Funeral Oration.
The purpose of the funeral oration is not only to respect the departed, but also to instill the citizens' national pride and a passion to fight for Athens.
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A funeral oration is a speech given at a funeral. It usually gives a sundry of the persons good traits, his life history, his social standing and education and so on. It may also be called a eulogy (a word which comes from the Latin - speaking well (of the dead)).
Pericles speech was called the Funeral Oration. He have this speech to honor Athenians who had died in the Peloponnesian War. It was the custom for the state to provide public burial for the war dead and to choose a man of "approved wisdom and eminent reputation" to give the eulogy.
17 years na siya dre?