Classical Studies 3905G Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Diadem, Olive Oil, Steering Oar

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 3905G
• Professor: David Wilson

Document Summary

In pre-classical times one could not distinguish between the two: hypnos, sleep, later shown as young, thanatos, death, later shown as older, began to be able to tell the difference between the two after the persian war. In the burial ground: not on a mythical battlefield, maybe in the warrior burial ground, they are lowering the body of an athenian hoplite warrior into a trench, capturing his death in a battle, the warrior, beardless. If a man died in a foreign war he would have been older: had to be over 20 years old, might historically date the pot, do not see warriors at their own graves until the peloponnesian, pot five. War period: dates to the peloponnesian war period, at the warrior burial ground, communal grave stele, the body of the dead warrior is depicted, lowered into the trench by hypnos and thanatos. Implication that the man was going on his final journey: killed in battle, pot four.