[3] Benndorf, _Griech. und Sicil. Vasenbilder_, pl. xxxiii.
[4] _Mon. dell’ Inst._ ix. 39.
[5] Rayet, _Monum. de l’Art Antique_, pl. lxxv.
[6] Rayet, text to above plate.
[7] See below, Ch. VII, VIII.
[8] _Iliad_, xvi. 666.
[9] Klein, _Euphronios_, p. 272. Iris and a female figure stand on
either side. Some writers, interpreting the latter as Eos, have seen in
the dead body that of Memnon. The point is immaterial to our present
purpose.
[10] Dumont, _Céramiques de la Grèce propre_, pl. xxvii.
[11] _Mon. dell’ Inst._ ix. 32. We reproduce only the central group of
the painting.
[12] _Gräber der Hellenen_, p. 42, pl. viii. Stackelberg found
the coffin himself near the Acharnian Gate at Athens, and drew it
immediately on discovery.
[13] Pottier et Reinach, _La Nécropole de Myrina_, p. 101.
[14] Herodotus, iv. 26. The word γευέσια may perhaps mean, as some have
suggested, the anniversary of the death, if death be regarded as birth
into a new life. The early Christians seem to have adopted this view.
[15] P. 519; _Charon_, 22.
[16] II. p. 926; _De Luctu_, 9.
[17] Plutarch, _Solon_, 21.
[18] _Athen. Mittheil._ i. 143.
[19] Plutarch, _Aristides_. 21.
[20] _Athen. Mittheil._ 1893, p. 53.
[21] See below, Chap. VI.
[22] _Ephem. Archaiol._ 1886, pl. iv.
[23] Benndorf, _Griech. und Sicil. Vasenb._ pl. xxi, 2: cf. xxi. 1,
xxii, xxv, &c.
[24] Dumont, _Céram. de la Grèce_, pl. xxv.
[25] Pottier, _Lécythes blancs_, pl. iv: cf. p. 74.
[26] No. 735 of the Athens Museum.
[27] Pl. lx.
[28] In a later Chapter (X) I show by instances how close is sometimes
the resemblance in reliefs and on vases between the toilet scenes of
daily life and scenes of offering to the dead.
[29] _Catalogue of Vases_, IV. pl. iv. I cannot accept the view of the
author of the Catalogue, that all three figures are those of mourners.
[30] As to the pillar (κίων) and table (τράπέζα), see Chap. VIII.
[31] _Psyche, Seelencult und Unsterblichkeitsglaube der Griechen_, 1894.
[32] _Odyssey_, iv. 560.
[33] x. 28. Cf. Robert, _Die Nekyia des Polygnot_. Halle, 1892.
[34] _Antike Denkmäler_, published by the German Archaeological
Institute, vol. i. pl. xxiii. 3.
[35] Nos. 1 and 2 on the plate already cited.
[36] Pottier, _Lécythes blancs_, pl. 3: cf. Benndorf, _Griech. und
Sicil. Vasenb._ pl. 27.
[37] X. 28. 7.
[38] See _Wiener Vorlegeblätter_, Series E, pl. i-iii: cf. Baumeister,
_Denkmäler_, article ‘Unterwelt.’
[39] Cf. the relief published in _Athen. Mittheil._ iv. pl. ix.
[40] L. 50.
[41] I. 28. 6.
[42] _Agesilaus_, xi. 8.
[43] See Chap. XI.
[44] II. p. 364 E (translation of Davies and Vaughan).
[45] Chap. XII.
[46] Plutarch, _Pelopidas_, 20-22.
[47] _Odyssey_, xi. 602.
[48] For this see, among other works, Schliemann, _Mycenae and Tiryns_;
Schuchhardt, _Excavations of Schliemann_ (Eng. trans.); Perrot et
Chipiez, _La Grèce Primitive_; Gardner, _New Chapters in Greek History_.
[49] Schuchhardt, _Schliemann’s Ausgrabungen_, p. 176.
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