The Burial Customs of the Ancient Greeks
by Frank Pierrepont Graves
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About this eBook
- Author
- Graves, Frank Pierrepont, 1869-1956
- Credits
- Produced by deaurider, Elisa and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DF: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Greece
- Subject
- Burial -- Greece
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 49431
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49431
- Release Date
- July 12, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BURIAL CUSTOMS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS. — PREFACE. — AUTHORITIES. — CONTENTS.
- 2.I. DUTY OF BURIAL.
- 3.II. BURIALS EXTRAORDINARY.
- 4.III. PREPARATION FOR BURIAL.
- 5.IV. THE LYING IN STATE.
- 6.V. OUTWARD GRIEF.
- 7.VI. THE PROCESSION.
- 8.VII. BURNING OR INHUMATION?
- 9.VIII. THE COFFINS.
- 10.IX. THE TOMBS.
- 11.X. THE FUNERAL FEAST.
- 12.XI. SACRIFICES AT THE GRAVE.
- 13.XII. FURTHER CEREMONIES.
- 14.NOTES
- 15.Untitled
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