The Athenians and Their Graves (1000-300 BC)

by: Walter-Karydi, E.

The Athenians and Their Graves (1000–300 BC)
Elena Walter-Karydi
Volume 25 in the series Image & Context

About this book
This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, images and inscriptions shows, from an anthropological perspective, the Athenian attitude towards death in its fundamental difference to Christian occidental views.

The book, which was originally published in German, is revised.

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Contents

Color plates

Introduction

I. Graves without a cemetery

II. The due of the dead: geras thanonton and the grave markers of the Geometric period (1000–700 BC). The “familiar death.”

III. The deceased appears as a person: grave sculptures of the Archaic period (circa 650–490 BC)

IV. Discovering the self and the other: grave markers of the Classical period (circa 430–300 BC).

Abbreviations

Bibliography of works cited

References to the illustrations

Notes

Indices

The Athenians and Their Graves (1000-300 BC)

by: Walter-Karydi, E.

• ISBN-13: 9783110714975 / 978-3-11-071497-5
• ISBN-03: 3110714973 / 3-11-071497-3
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2024