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Funeral monuments from the Kerameikos cemetery at Athens. After 1100 BC, Greeks began to bury their dead in individual graves rather than group tombs. Athens, however, was a major exception; the Athenians normally cremated their dead and placed their ashes in an urn. [4]
The monument of Hegeso would have been viewed within a peribolos tomb, facing the Street of Tombs on the left of the stele for Koroibos of Melite, a deme in the west of Athens. Though his rosette stele only lists Koroibos, his sons, and grandson (up to possibly five generations) in the inscription, most label Hegeso as the wife of Koroibos.
Not only did the Dipylon Master specialize in the creation of the vase, but he also worked on the painting of the vases he created. The vases portrayed scenes and figures of the deceased life and the funerary process that went through to establish the funeral. [6] This Dipylon Master was active around 760–750 BC and worked in Athens.
The funeral service was held at Saint Theodore Church in Athens, Greece, and Prince Michael will be buried at the Tatoi Royal Cemetery, where King Constantine was also laid to rest last year. Shop Now
The funeral took place in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens. Royal guests began arriving in Greece on 15 January 2023 and most of them stayed at the Hotel Grande Bretagne, where both reporting mediai and crowds greeted them.
Constantine II, a second cousin of the King and one of the Prince of Wales’s godparents, died last week aged 82.
However, funeral rites did vary both throughout the history of Ancient Greece as well as between the different city-states. For example, cremation was a common practice within the city-state of Athens. [17] A picture of the Telesterion and the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kora at Eleusis in modern day Greece
The First Cemetery of Athens (Greek: Πρώτο Νεκροταφείο Αθηνών, Próto Nekrotafeío Athinón) is the official cemetery of the City of Athens and the first to be built. It opened in 1837 and soon became a prestigious cemetery for Greeks and foreigners.