Category: History - Ancient
THE LYING IN STATE (_Prothesis_): When this took place--Regulations of Ceos--The women who took part--The scarf, the fan, and the bird--The place--The position of the corpse--The _kline_--The _lecyths_--The _ardanion_--Two purposes of the prothesis.
The task of investigation in this field of Grecian antiquities is akin to that of a blind man, patching together the fragments of a shattered vase with no guidance but the rough...
7. CHAPTER IX.THE TOMBS: The varieties--Heaps of earth--The stêlæ--Decorations--The _kion_--The _trapezae_--The herôum--Early entombments--Later cost and regulations against it--Inscriptions...
9. CHAPTER XI.SACRIFICES AT THE GRAVE: Performed by relatives--The two varieties--Increase in expense--The _trita_--The _ennata_--The sacrifices of the Argives--Of the Spartans--When mourning...
3. CHAPTER IV.THE LYING IN STATE (_Prothesis_): When this took place--Regulations of Ceos--The women who took part--The scarf, the fan, and the bird--The place--The position of the corpse--Th...
5. CHAPTER VI.6. CHAPTER VII.1. CHAPTER II.2. CHAPTER III.8. CHAPTER X.4. CHAPTER V.