In this (late, it's still free for a reason) Hermes Historia episode, Michaela shares a brief history of ancient Greek funerary practices. Because Spooky Season. Sign up for a new newsletter) to stay in the loop about the upcoming ad-free subscriptions where future Hermes' Historia episodes will live! Submit your questions to the quarterly Q&A episodes)!
CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Sources: John Ferguson's Among the Gods: An Archaeological Exploration of Ancient Greek Religion;* Maria Serena Mirto's Death in the Greek World: From Homer to the Classical Age; *Herodotus' *The Histories, *translated by Robin Waterfield.
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