Compare and Contrast Funeral Oration and Gettysburg Address

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 …

…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.