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Ancient Greek Traditions

Ancient Greek Traditions. By Maddie McGowan, Mike Gutman, Hayley Armstrong, and Leah Buchman. Funeral Traditions. Laying the body out for display Conducting funeral ceremony at grave site

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Ancient Greek Traditions

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  1. Ancient Greek Traditions By Maddie McGowan, Mike Gutman, Hayley Armstrong, and Leah Buchman

  2. Funeral Traditions • Laying the body out for display • Conducting funeral ceremony at grave site • During burial: terracotta vessels with food and drink were placed in the tomb next to the corpse or the urn • Animal sacrifices

  3. Burial Rituals • Elaborate tombs. Underground chambers, raised mounds, and masonry-built tombs during the Archaic period • Believed that you should bury the dead according to “time honored” rituals • Women conducted burial rituals • Steps: laying out of the body, funeral procession, dressed • Few objects were placed in the grave, but statues were erected to mark the graves to insure they were not forgotten

  4. Afterlife • Golden jewels were essential for respectable and honored tombs used to display wealth and status • The wealthier, the more elaborate resting place • If you weren’t buried properly, you are stuck between worlds, until you go into the underworld

  5. Festivals • Origins of theater came from Dionysus • An Athenian tyrant’s ways led to the performance of tragedies • Once tragedy became popular, comedy and satyr plays came about. • Plays were written, and 3 playwrights would compete. Comedies and tragedies • Dedicated to Dionysus

  6. QUESTIONS • Who were the plays dedicated to? • What did the Greeks believe would happen if one was not buried properly? • How was wealth shown in death?

  7. Works Cited • Penn Press. "Intute - Mycenaean Greece." Intute - Home. 2002. Web. 18 Mar. 2011. http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=200431. • Fonseca, Ruben. Ancient Greek Theater. Web. 2011. http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/Architec/AncientArchitectural/GreekArchitecture/GreekBuilding/Theater.htm • Bagwell, Kristina. "Burial Rituals and the Afterlife." UNCW Faculty and Staff. 2001. Web. 18 Mar. 2011. <http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/ancientnovel/kristina.htm>.

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