CLAS 2531 Lecture Notes - Ancient Rites, Burial, Grave Goods
29 Apr 2013
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Death was incorporated into the life of the community to a degree that would likely strike many people today as morbid- it as a part of daily life. When achilles delays burying patroklos because of his overwhelming grief, his ghost appears to achilles and urgently requests that he buries him as soon as possible (from the. The greek funeral: prothesis: laying out of the body in the home, ekphora: the funeral procession from the home to the place of the burial- symbolic transition from home to final resting place, burial. Mourning the deceased was mandatory- recall from women in antiquity- professional female mourners- prefiche During the classical age, in greece the inhumation (full body burial) became more common. During the 4th century bce both cremation and inhumation were practised each tomb is inscribed with semata- also featured statues of young men and women.
