Dearh and Burial Flashcards
1
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Anthesteria
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•GREEK •3 day festival:late January to honour Dionysus •Dead roamed Earth •Libations poured for Dionysus Offerings to Hermes
2
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Aulos player
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- GREEK
* Flute player accompanying funeral procession
3
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Charon
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- GREEK
- Ferryman in Underworld
- Greeks left coin in mouth of dead to pay for body rowed over River Styx
4
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Dionysus
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- GREEK
- God honoured at Anthesteria
- Could pass form Underworld to Earth
5
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Ekphora
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- GREEK
- ”funeral procession”
- 2 days after death
6
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Genesia
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- GREEK
- Festival:late September to honour dead ancestors
- Graves decorated, food/blood sacrificed
7
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Hades & Persephone
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- GREEK
* Sacrifice made at end of funeral for King/Queen of Underworld
8
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Hermes
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- GREEK
- one of 2 gods who passed freely from Underworld to earth
- Offerings to him
9
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Kerameikos
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- GREEK
* Main burial ground in Athens
10
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Lament
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- GREEK
* Mournful song by women
11
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Libation
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- GREEK
* Wine offering for Gods
12
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Prosthesis
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- GREEK
* Laying out of the dead for 2 days as a farewell
13
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Pyre
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- GREEK
* Pile of wood where dead body burned
14
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Stele
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- GREEK
* Slab of stone carved with an image used as memorials for dead
15
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Atrium
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- ROMAN
- Main room in Roman house
- Where dead body was for 8 days (after perfumed, washed, dressed)
