1.7 DEATH + BURIAL Flashcards
In Greece, who recieved a burial
Everyone, no matter status or wealth
What happened immediatly when someone died in Greece
- Eyes and mouth closed
- Washed, perfumed, wrapped in long white shroud
- Coin placed in mouth for Charon
- Prosthesis
- Lament
What was the Greek Prosthesis
- Lasted 2 days
- Bowl of water outside house to wash pollution
What was the Greek Lament
- Wear black
- Cut hair
- Wail beside the dead
What was the Greek Ekphora (procession)
- Dead in wagon or carried by pallbearers
- Accompanied by aulos players
Why were bodies buried outside the city
- Reduce religious pollution
- Reduce spread of disease
What was the main burial ground in Athens
Kerameikos
What was given to the rich bodies in Greece
Stele’s - graves musn’t be neglected
What happened 30 days after the body was buried in Greece
- Blood sacrifice given to Hades + Persephone
- 30 days mourning - 3 compulsory
Greek festivals for the dead
- Anthesteria - 3 days in late January in honour of Dionysus
- Genesia - 1 day in late September where graves were decorated with ribbons
What was a Roman funeral club
- Pay a monthly fee
- Workers of same trade set up a club
- Met for meals and gatherings
- If you died they paid for a funeral and provided mourners, ensuring you weren’t forgotten
What happened immediatley after someone died in Rome
- Last breath captured with a kiss, and their name called
- Body washed, perfumed and placed in finest clothes
- Coin placed in mouth to pay ferryman, Charon
- Body placed in atrium for 8 days - women lament and beat their chests
What would happen in a Roman funeral procession for the dead
- Family members were wax funerary masks of ancestors
- Mournours of actors could be paid to mimick the dead
Where were the dead buried in Rome
By the sides of the road on the way into the city
What could rich dead Romans have when they are buried
Be placed in an elaborately carved sarcophagi
