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Funeral monuments from the Kerameikos cemetery at Athens. After 1100 BC, Greeks began to bury their dead in individual graves rather than group tombs. Athens, however, was a major exception; the Athenians normally cremated their dead and placed their ashes in an urn. [4]
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The funeral service was held at Saint Theodore Church in Athens, Greece, and Prince Michael will be buried at the Tatoi Royal Cemetery, where King Constantine was also laid to rest last year. Shop Now
However, funeral rites did vary both throughout the history of Ancient Greece as well as between the different city-states. For example, cremation was a common practice within the city-state of Athens. [17] A picture of the Telesterion and the Sanctuary of Demeter and Kora at Eleusis in modern day Greece
A funeral oration or epitaphios logos (Ancient Greek: ἐπιτάφιος λόγος) is a formal speech delivered on the ceremonial occasion of a funeral. Funerary customs comprise the practices used by a culture to remember the dead, from the funeral itself, to various monuments, prayers, and rituals undertaken in their honour.
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He was enthroned by Archbishop Iakovos of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of North and South America on May 1, 1979, as the Bishop of Chicago at the Annunciation Cathedral. In November 1997, the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate elected Garmatis to the active Metropolitanate of Chicago and Exarch of Ionia .
ATHENS (Reuters) -Greece's worst wildfire of the year has left one woman dead as it continued to burn on the outskirts of the capital Athens on Tuesday, although milder winds and firefighting ...