=STACKELBERG=, Baron. Die Graeber der Hellenen, Berlin, 1837. =ST. JOHN=, History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greeks, Vol. III, London, 1842. =TEGG=, The Last Act. London, 1877. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. DUTY OF BURIAL: Burial of an enemy--Duty toward parents. CHAPTER II. BURIALS EXTRAORDINARY: Burial of criminals--Of suicides--Of traitors--Of those struck by lightning--Special ceremonies for violent deaths--For persons drowned. CHAPTER III. PREPARATION FOR BURIAL: Former features--Reforms--The passage money--The bath--The unguents--The wreaths--The honey-cake--The garments. CHAPTER IV. THE LYING IN STATE (_Prothesis_): When this took place--Regulations of Ceos--The women who took part--The scarf, the fan, and the bird--The place--The position of the corpse--The _kline_--The _lecyths_--The _ardanion_--Two purposes of the prothesis. CHAPTER V. OUTWARD GRIEF: By whom rendered--Only a form--Excesses--Laws against excess--Their result. CHAPTER VI. THE PROCESSION, (_ekphora_): Third day the set time--Exceptions to set time--Hour of the day--The _kline_--Who carried the bier--The dirge singers--Who might attend the procession--Military funeral processions. CHAPTER VII. BURNING OR INHUMATION? The extreme views--The two methods contemporary--Cremation at every period--Burial also existed--Custom at Sparta and Sicyon--Comparison with modern methods--Details of cremation--Place of cremation. CHAPTER VIII. THE COFFINS: Early coffins--Those of stone--Of cypress--Shape and decorations. CHAPTER IX. THE TOMBS: The varieties--Heaps of earth--The stêlæ--Decorations--The _kion_--The _trapezae_--The herôum--Early entombments--Later cost and regulations against it--Inscriptions on the tombs--Epitaphs to children--Trinkets placed in the tomb--The public cemetery--Tombs of the richer class--Burials outside of the city--The motive--Laws at Sparta and other States. CHAPTER X. THE FUNERAL FEAST (_Perideipnon_): Its purpose--The host--The place--Praise of deceased’s virtues--Consecration of fragments. CHAPTER XI. SACRIFICES AT THE GRAVE: Performed by relatives--The two varieties--Increase in expense--The _trita_--The _ennata_--The sacrifices of the Argives--Of the Spartans--When mourning ceased--The basket--Other utensils--What was employed for sacrifices--Women performed sacrifices--Grief less noticeable than at prothesis--Customs at the tomb--General attention to the graves. CHAPTER XII. FURTHER CEREMONIES: The _genesia_--The _nekysia_--Funeral games--Duty of visiting the grave--General conduct of a mourner--Black garments and polling of the head--Custom at Sparta--Conclusion. THE BURIAL CUSTOMS AMONG THE ANCIENT GREEKS. I. DUTY OF BURIAL.