CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Grave Goods, Ancient Greek Religion, Anthropomorphism
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Death: funerary ritual and the realm of hades: acropolis building project ca. 450 - 400 bc: house of erechtheus more important building of acropolis; statue of athena, parthenon = maiden; not a temple bc no statue i. ii. Parthenon decoration: pediments (poseidon vs. athena), metopes (greeks vs. Centaurs), frieze (panathenaic procession) direct reflection of athens: funerary ritual as rite-of-passage, hades and underworld. The funeral: prothesis laying out the dead, ekphrasis carrying out the body, burial burying dead; have a feast, visits to the grave. Children special deaths and jugs with their burial. Journey to underworld: psychopompos (leader of souls) Charon rows boat across river styx and charges fee.
