In this episode, we discuss what life was like for the elderly in ancient Greece, the liminal stage between life and death, the rituals and importance of the funeral and burial, the archaeology of the Kerameikos in Athens and its significance in our understanding of Greek funerary practices, the importance of the demosion sema and epitaphios logos in Athenian democracy, and the evolution of Greek funerary monuments from the archaic into the Hellenistic period
Show Notes: http://www.thehistoryofancientgreece.com/2018/08/079-old-age-death-and-burial.html
Intro by Dr Foxwede of Foxwede History
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008 The "Dark Age" and Homer
007 Late Bronze Age Collapse
006 Mycenaean Greece
005 Minoan Crete
004 Early Bronze Age
003 The Stone Age
002 The Greek Genesis
001 Let There Be Greece!
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