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'The Rock Of The Nightingale': Kinship Diplomacy And Sophocles' Tereus, Katerina Zacharia
'The Rock Of The Nightingale': Kinship Diplomacy And Sophocles' Tereus, Katerina Zacharia
Classics and Archaeology Faculty Works
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Review Of Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Limc), Vol. 8 (Thespiades-Zodiacus Et Supplementum) And Indices, Brunilde S. Ridgway
Review Of Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (Limc), Vol. 8 (Thespiades-Zodiacus Et Supplementum) And Indices, Brunilde S. Ridgway
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship
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Thrown Away Like Rubbish - Disposal Of The Dead In Ancient Greece, Astrid Lindenlauf
Thrown Away Like Rubbish - Disposal Of The Dead In Ancient Greece, Astrid Lindenlauf
Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Faculty Research and Scholarship
In this article, the literary and archaeological evidence for burial practices that can be associated with the English expression ‘to be disposed of like rubbish’ are discussed. These disposal methods (átaphon rhíptesthai) include the exposure of corpses to carrion animals, to the elements, as well as the disposal of corpses into the sea, pits or natural fissures without burial rites. They also include cases in which graves were dug up in order to throw their contents out. Here, the Greek expressions for the English phrase ‘to be thrown away like rubbish’ are explored, as well as its relation …