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Funerary Rites and Mourning

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.

How it traveled

  1. Histories
    Thurii (Magna Graecia) · -425
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  2. Cyropaedia
    Athens · -354
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  3. Hellenica
    Athens · -354
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  4. Anabasis
    Athens · -354
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  5. Geography
    Amaseia · 24
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  6. Quaestiones Romanae
    Chaeronea · 120
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  7. Description of Greece
    · 180
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  8. Deipnosophistae
    Naucratis · 230
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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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Description of Greece · Pausanias

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Quaestiones Romanae · Plutarch

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