Essays about: "Athenian burial culture"

Found 1 essay containing the words Athenian burial culture.

  1. 1. Artefacts in funerary scenes on Athenian white-ground lekythoi. Artefakter i begravningsscener på athenska vit-grundiga lekyter. : A comparison between iconography and text. En jämförelse mellan ikonografi och text

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Antikens kultur och samhällsliv

    Author : Carl William Eliasson; [2020]
    Keywords : White-ground lekythos; lekythoi; Athenian burial culture; funerary; white-ground technique.;

    Abstract : This study analyses visible artefacts depicted on Athenian white-ground funerary lekythoi from between 475 to 425 BCE, to investigate what the iconographic information of the artefacts can tell us about the funerary activity and how the information relates to the written sources from antiquity. The purpose of this study is to gain a more in-depth view of the Athenian funerary activities, of which we currently have limited knowledge of. READ MORE