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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
During burial: terracotta vessels with food
and drink were placed in the tomb next to
the corpse or the urn
Animal sacrifices
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
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
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
QUESTIONS
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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?
Works Cited
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Penn Press. "Intute - Mycenaean Greece." Intute Home. 2002. Web. 18 Mar. 2011.
http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=200431.
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Fonseca, Ruben. Ancient Greek Theater. Web. 2011.
http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/arts/Architec/Ancien
tArchitectural/GreekArchitecture/GreekBuilding/Theater.h
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Bagwell, Kristina. "Burial Rituals and the Afterlife."
UNCW Faculty and Staff. 2001. Web. 18 Mar. 2011.
<http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/ancientnovel/kristina.ht
m>.