Death and Burial

Question 1

Anthesteria

Answer 1

Greek
late January, 3 days
celebrated maturing of wine
libations dead rose, drinking contests, dead meal

Question 2

Genesia

Answer 2

Greek
September
decorate grave w/ ribbons food blood sacrifice

Question 3

Karameikos

Answer 3

main Athenian burial ground outside city walls
remove religious pollution and disease

Question 4

ekphora

Answer 4

Greek funeral procession house to burial
with wagon, pallbearers, women, children family aulos player

Question 5

immediate death Greek

Answer 5

eyes and mouth seeled
wash perfume white robe
coin for Charon

Question 6

prosthesis Greek

Answer 6

2 days family and friends say goodbye
bowl of water to remove pollution
women lament w black and cut hair

Question 7

after ekphora Greek

Answer 7

pyre -> urn -> shrine
burial gifts, food, stele
forgot = dishonour
sacrifice to hades and persephone

Question 8

Greek stele

Answer 8

Hegeso, slave girl, jewellery box

Question 9

funeral clubs

Answer 9

Roman
less wealthy
ensure buried

Question 10

Roman immediate death

Answer 10

same as greek
capture last breath with kiss
finest clothes
8 day in atrium

Question 11

Roman procession

Answer 11

flute and horn plays
slaves family and freedmen
wax funerary masks of ancestors
professional mourners and mimic dead in life

Question 12

Roman burial

Answer 12

same as Greeks
family tomb or individual monument
on roads to towns- remembered
resemble homes, temples
carved sarcophagi
marble bust in house

Question 13

Parentalia

Answer 13

Romans
9 days in Feb
no temple stuff
blood sacrifice from VVs
offerings to tomb, meal at home day 9

Question 14

Lemuria

Answer 14

3 days in May
no business
warm off evil spirits
wash, throw beans, say, wash, bronze gong, banish

Question 15

manes

Answer 15

deified ancestors spirits of dead