Oration is a formal speech one given at a ceremony. Two of the best orator gave two of the most famous public speeches ever made in the history of our planet: Pericles’ Funeral Oration and Abraham Lincoln‘s Gettysburg Address. Both speeches were delivered to commemorate those troops who had fallen in the two battles: The Peloponnesian War and the Battle of Gettysburg. In 431, Pericles delivered his famous Funeral Oration to commemorate those troops who …showed first 75 words of 429 total…

…showed last 75 words of 429 total…in the funeral oration was to emphasize the way in which individuals serve the common good by pursuing their own ends. He provided a good insight into just how Athenian democracy understood itself. The Battle of Gettysburg, one of the most noted battles of the Civil War, was fought on July 1-3, 1863. On November 19, 1863, the field was dedicated as a national cemetery by President Lincoln, who delivered the brief speech that was to become immortal.