The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks
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The dissertation examines burial customs among the Ancient Greeks, with a preface that explicitly disclaims profound scholarship or extended research and acknowledges the possibility of errors. The preface describes material gathered from ancient and modern authors, excavation records and museums, and an effort to remove errors with such diligence as the author's inexperience permitted. The discussion of burial duties regards monuments as a more trustworthy source for burial customs than literature, distinguishing superior minds from the common people's memorials.
The account states that the law of Athens required anyone who happened upon a corpse at least to cover the body with earth. The discussion of monuments at Athens notes inscriptions to deceased children and cautiously suggests that the honor was bestowed without reference to the dead person's age.
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- Frank Pierrepont Graves
- Pages
- 69
- Language
- English
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- Ancient History
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