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Frank Pierrepont Graves. The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks
The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks
Table of Contents
I. DUTY OF BURIAL
II. BURIALS EXTRAORDINARY
III. PREPARATION FOR BURIAL
IV. THE LYING IN STATE
V. OUTWARD GRIEF
VI. THE PROCESSION
VII. BURNING OR INHUMATION?
VIII. THE COFFINS
IX. THE TOMBS
X. THE FUNERAL FEAST
XI. SACRIFICES AT THE GRAVE
XII. FURTHER CEREMONIES
NOTES
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Frank Pierrepont Graves
Published by Good Press, 2019
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At Rome, the dressing of the corpse was performed by a hired undertaker called the pollinctor, but, among the Greeks, this delicate task was looked after by the nearest female relatives and was considered a very sacred duty[48]. The paintings that have been found on the funeral vases, exhibit a remarkable superiority, in numbers, of the women at the ceremonies preparatory to interment. Only a single lecyth has been found on which a man is depicted as taking part in the preliminary stages of the preparation. It is to the women that was given the care of making the toilet of the dead body, of washing it, perfuming it and wrapping it in the shroud. This custom is referred to by Homer when Diomede is lightly wounded by Paris and cries out that he “knows how to strike an enemy more forcibly, that a man touched by his spear is a dead man and that around him the vultures are more numerous than the women[49].” At the funeral ceremonies of Hector, the chief part is assigned to the women[50].
