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(Gk 'pertaining to public assembly'). Poem or speech of public praise, usually for a person of renown (e.g., the king, a minister of state, a war hero). Originally, panegyric was a branch of rhetoric whose rules were laid down in the rhetorical works of Menander and Hermogenes. Scaliger also provides its rules in Poetics Libri Septem(1561).

Examples from Classical times

- the festival oration delivered by Isocrates (436-338 BC) on the occasion of the Olympic games in 380 BC

- Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c 113) euology on Roman Emperor Trajan

Examples from Shakespeare

- Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599)

Examples from Restoration Times

- John Dryden, "Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second" (1660)

- Nahum Tate, "Come Ye Sons of Art" (1694)

Sources

Cuddon, J.A., ed. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. Penguin Reference: London, 1999.

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-Poem or speech of public praise, usually for a person of renown (e.g., the king, a minister of state, a war hero). From Greek 'pertaining to public assembly' (Cuddon 632). "Originally panegyric was a branch of rhetoric whose rules were laid down in the rhetorical works of Menander and Hermogenes. Scaliger also provides its rules in ''Poetics Libri Septem'' (1561)" (ibid.).
+(Gk 'pertaining to public assembly'). Poem or speech of public praise, usually for a person of renown (e.g., the king, a minister of state, a war hero). Originally, panegyric was a branch of rhetoric whose rules were laid down in the rhetorical works of Menander and Hermogenes. Scaliger also provides its rules in ''Poetics Libri Septem''(1561).
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-- festival oration by Isocrates (436-338 BC) at the Olympic Games in 380
+- the festival oration delivered by Isocrates (436-338 BC) on the occasion of the Olympic games in 380 BC
+- Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c 113) euology on Roman Emperor Trajan
+== '''Examples from Shakespeare'''==
-- Pliny the Younger's (AD 61-c.113) euology on Trajan
+- Mark Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' (1599)
-== '''Examples from Renaissance and Restoration times''' ==
-- Mark Antony's funeral oration in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''Julius Caesar'' (1599) (ibid.)
+== '''Examples from Restoration Times''' ==
-- [[John Dryden]], ''Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second'' (1660)
-- John Dryden, ''[["Annus Mirabilis"|Annus Mirabilis]]'' (1666)
-- John Dryden, ''Threnodia Augustalis'' (1685)
+- [[John Dryden]], "Astraea Redux. A Poem on the Happy Restoration and Return of his Sacred Majesty Charles the Second" (1660)
-- [[Nahum Tate]], ''Come Ye Sons of Art'' (1694)
+- [[Nahum Tate]], "Come Ye Sons of Art" (1694)