_C. A. G._ (‘Corpus of Attic Grave-reliefs’) is _Die Attischen Grabreliefs_, ed. A. Conze. Kaibel, is G. Kaibel, _Epigrammata Graeca ex Lapidibus conlecta_. TABLE OF CONTENTS AND INDEX CHAPTER I. BURIAL CUSTOMS IN GREECE. Importance attached to burial, 1. The Prothesis, 2; illustrated by vases, 3. Presence of ghosts, 4. The Ecphora, on archaic vases, 5; on later monuments, 6. Sleep and Death, 7. Custom of burning, 9. Funeral feast and speeches, 11. CHAPTER II. THE WORSHIP OF THE DEAD. Primitive beliefs as to needs of dead, 12. Liberality to the dead in archaic times, 12. Terra-cotta offerings, 13. Sacrifices at tombs, 14. Evidence of excavations, 16. Classes of heroes, 17. Evidence of sepulchral lekythi, 18. Presence of the dead in representations, 19. CHAPTER III. BELIEFS AS TO THE FUTURE LIFE. Question what became of the dead, 23. Homeric beliefs; Hades, 25; visit to Hades of Odysseus, 26; Islands of the Blessed, 27. Influence of Orphism, 28. Paintings of Polygnotus at Delphi, 30; Charon, 31; Theseus and Peirithous, 32; Orpheus, 33; the Uninitiated, 34; Eurynomus, 35. Painting on vase of Canusium, 36; Orpheus, 37; Herakles and Cerberus, 37; Megara, 38; Initiated, 38. Comparison of Greek and Christian Hades, 39. Development of the Eumenides, 40. Conflict between ritual and ethics, 42. Hades in the Tragedians, 43. Localization of ghosts, 44. CHAPTER IV. THE PRE-HISTORIC AGE OF GREECE. So-called treasuries of early Greece, 46; at Mycenae, 47; really tombs, 51; various forms, 51. Rock-graves at Mycenae, 52; their tombstones, 54; subjects and style of art, 57. CHAPTER V. ASIA MINOR: EARLY. Early Ionian civilization not yet excavated, 59. Tomb of Tantalus on Sipylus, 60. Geometric tombs of Phrygia, 62; Lion-tombs, 64; their chronology, 66; relation to Mycenae, 67. Archaic tombs of Lycia, 67; pre-Ionian art, 68; the Harpy Monument, 69; Sirens, 73; other Lycian tombs, 74. CHAPTER VI. SPARTA. Relief of Chrysapha, 76; its meaning, 77; other similar tombs, 78. Cultus of ancestors at Sparta, 80. Details of reliefs; honour paid to women, 81; food of the dead, 82; horse and dog, 83. CHAPTER VII. HEROIZING RELIEFS. Distinction of tombs from commemorative tablets, 87. Lines of descent from Spartan reliefs, 88. Athenian banqueting reliefs, 88. Customs of sitting and reclining, 89. Tegean relief, 90. Presence of votaries, 91. Asklepian tablets, 92. Tablets to heroes and to ancestors, 93. The hero as horseman, 94; accompanied by lady, 98. Votive tablets from Tarentum, 100. The hero as foot-soldier, 102; unarmed, 103. CHAPTER VIII. ATHENS: PERIODS AND FORMS OF MONUMENTS.