Key term for OCR GCSE Ancient History, used in Ancient Sources.
A speech in a historical text that is not a verbatim transcript, but a deliberate literary amalgam of ideas used to explain causes and reveal character.
Constructed oration appears in OCR GCSE Ancient History revision content for Athens in the Age of Pericles, especially Ancient Sources and Thucydides.
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