Death and Burial in Attic Tragedy Death and the Dead, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Death and Burial in Attic Tragedy Death and the Dead, Vol. 1 Ancient Greek life was divided into so many small separate streams, and developed so rapidly towards both its perfection and its decay, that very few statements can be true either of the whole people or of the whole period. While undoubtedly many customs survived through centuries, at the same time fashions changed from generation to generation in even the most important points, the contact with outside nations, the introduction of foreign religions, and the experience of new forms of government, radically and continually affected thought and life throughout the entire nation. Besides, though homogeneous in race, and to a certain extent in language, the Greeks were far from being so in any other respect. In the separate states, the development was remarkably uneven, individualism was the most striking characteristic, and every city and hamlet prided itself on legends and practices peculiarly its own. The study of Greek life, to be properly understood, should be taken up country by country and period by period. Heretofore this has not been possible, now, with the multitudes of inscriptions of all sorts coming daily to the surface, with the works of long-lost authors, vases and gems, temples and palaces, perpetually unearthed, we may hope ultimately for a fairly intelligible reconstruction of the daily life and feeling of that great race to whom we owe the best of our culture and the greater part of our civilization. In the following pages I have attempted to touch but one phase of that multitudinous life, the ideas regarding death, in but one city and age, the Vth century at Athens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.