THE
BURIAL CUSTOMS
OF THE
ANCIENT GREEKS.
A DISSERTATION
BY
FRANK PIERREPONT GRAVES,
_COLUMBIA COLLEGE_.
BROOKLYN.
MAY 1891.
PREFACE.
The author of this thesis does not lay claim to profound scholarship
or extended research. It may contain errors that are perceptible to
a careful student of Greek archaeology, even without subjecting the
paper to a minute scrutiny. The material has been found scattered
through the writings of ancient and modern authors and in the records
of many excavations and the treasures of many museums. In the process
of gathering from so extended a field, it is but natural that mistakes
should have crept into the work. The effort has been made to exclude
as many errors as possible and to weed out those that could be
discovered with as great diligence as the inexperience of the author
permitted. The labor of compilation has been undergone in the hope
that a connected account of these ancient burial customs might breed
an interest in the subject and prove an incentive to a more extended
examination by some whose curiosity might not be strong enough or whose
leisure time might not be sufficient to gather what was so widely
separated.
AUTHORITIES.
Besides the writers of ancient Greece, the following authorities have
been consulted in the preparation of this dissertation:
=ANACHARSIS=, Travels of, Par l’abbe Barthélemi. English translation,
London, 1800.
=BECKER, W.= Adolph, Charicles, or Illustrations of the private life
of the Ancient Greeks. Excursus on Burials.
=BENNDORF=, Griechische und Sicilien, Vasenbilden.
=BOS=, Antiquities of Greece, London, 1772.
=CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM GRAECARUM=, Edidit Augustus Boeckhius, Berolini.
=COULANGE=, La Cité Antique.
=DODWELL=, Edward, Classical and Topographical Tour through Greece,
London, 1819.
=FEYDEAU=, Histoire générale des usages funébres et des sepultures des
peuples anciens, Paris, 1858.
=FORBIGER=, Populäre Darstellung des öffentlichen und häuslichen
Lebens der Griechen und Römer. I Band, Leipzig, 1876.
=GARDNER=, Percy, Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. v.
=HERMANN=, Lehrbuch der Griechischen Privatalterthümer von K. F.
Hermann. Dritte Auflage von Dr. Hugo Blümner, Freiburg, 1882.
=MAHAFFY, J. P.=, Rambles and Studies in Greece, second edition 1878.
=MERRIAM, A. C.=, American Journal of Arch. v. Icaria.
=MILLIN, A. L.=, Peintures de vases antiques vulgairement appelés
Etrusques tírées des differentes collections.
=MITCHELL, LUCY M.=, History of Ancient Sculpture.
=MILLINGEN, J. V.=, Painted Greek Vases, London, 1822.
=PERROT et CHIPIEZ=, Histoire de L’art dans L’antiquité, Tome premier,
L’Egypte.
=POTTIER, EDMOND.= Étude sur les Lecythes Blancs Attiques á
Représentations Funéraires. [Bibliothéque des écoles françaises
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=SCHREIBER=, Bilderatlas and Commentary.
=STACKELBERG=, Baron. Die Graeber der Hellenen, Berlin, 1837.
=ST. JOHN=, History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greeks, Vol.
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=TEGG=, The Last Act. London, 1877.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
DUTY OF BURIAL: Burial of an enemy--Duty toward parents.