Ancient Greece; a sketch of its art, literature & philosophy viewed in connexion with its external history from earliest times to the age of Alexander the Great (1913)
Cotterill, H. B. (Henry Bernard), b. 1846 · New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company · leaf 56
. 2 Burial and burning often existed side by side, as was certainly the casein the classical age of Greece. A curious inconsistency occurs to me. Theskeleton of the Achaean Orestes, Herodotus teUs us (i. 68), was found atTegea in a coflSn over ten feet long ; but Sophocles brings on to the stage,… … O
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