Civic Eulogy in the Epitaphios of Pericles and the Citywide Prayer Service of Rudolph Giuliani

This essays inquires into the mechanisms that regulate construction of civic eulogies in Pericles' epitaphios logos and Rudolph Giuliani's Citywide Prayer Service at Yankee Stadium. The inquiry focuses on how the speeches establishe the relationship between the speaker and the audience, employ rhetorical topoi and develop argumentative strategies. In the end, it becomes clear the the speeches transact praise of the dead and exaltation of civic ideals with strikingly similar approaches.