customs
Funerary Rites and Mourning
kedos / taphe
The prescribed sequence of laying out (prothesis), procession (ekphora), burial or cremation, and mourning of the dead, with women's lament central to the rite.
Where this idea shows up
12 Greek sourcesWhere to read it
- Cyropaedia354 BCEXenophon· Athens
- Memorabilia354 BCEXenophon· Athens
- Quaestiones Convivales120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Quaestiones Romanae120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Quaestiones Graecae120 CEPlutarch· Chaeronea
- Deipnosophistae230 CEAthenaeus of Naucratis· Naucratis