Gardner, Percy: Sculptured tombs of Hellas (London, 1896)

TABLE OF CONTENTS AND INDEX

CHAPTER [.

BURIAL CUSTOMS IN GREECE.

Importance attached to burial, i. 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, n.

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.

RELIEFS 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; Eury-
nomus, 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.