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Classical Mythology
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Classical Literature - Course Guide
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Classical Drama
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Classical Literature - Antigone
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Classical Literature - Medea
A study of Euripides' tragedy, Medea. A play performed in Athens, based upon the myth of Medea, Jason and the Argonauts and the aftermath of the quest for the Golden Fleece.
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Classical Literature - Aeneid
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Life in Classical Greece - Power and Freedom
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Life in the Roman World - Power and Freedom videos
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Life in the Roman World - Religion & Belief - Introduction
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Life in the Roman World - State Religion
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Life in the Roman World - Domestic Religion
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Life in the Roman World - Mystery Religions
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Life in the Roman World - Religious tolerance in the Roman world
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Life in the Roman World - Philosophical attitudes to religious beliefs
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Life in Classical Greece - Religion & Belief - Introduction
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Life in Classical Greece - State Religion
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Life in Classical Greece - Mystery Religions
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Life in Classical Greece - Domestic Religion
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Life in Classical Greece - Gender Roles within Religious Worship
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Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 1
Treatment of the dead
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Greek and Roman Views on the After-Life section 2
The mythological Underworld and the attitude of philosophers to the Underworld
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Life in Classical Greece - Death and the Afterlife
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Life in Classical Greece - Challengers of traditional beliefs
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Provision for the dead
Belief in a life continuing within the tomb helps to explain the gifts and grave goods and the occasional supply of food over the years. Large tombs in Roman times might even include a dining room for the graveside banquet. Petronius in his Satyricon (71) makes a wealthy freedman Trimalchio go into great and exaggerated detail as he provides for his own tomb ‘to secure a life after death’. He proceeds
The tomb should have a frontage of 100 feet and a depth of 200 feet; for I want to have every kind of apple and grapes in profusion growing around my ashes. It is a serious mistake for someone to have a fine house while he is alive and yet to have no thought for the home where we will have a much longer stay.
Trimalchio sets out the details of the inscription for the tomb, asks for a dining table to be included and below his statue wishes to have displayed his little dog, wreaths and perfume and a list of the fights of his favourite gladiator!
The common inscription found in Roman tombs after First Century BC as well as in Imperial times ‘sit terra tibi levis’ (abbreviated to STTL) ‘may the earth lie light upon you’ has also a significance for the idea of the continuing life of the deceased in his grave. Many inscriptions reinforce the belief.
Here is my eternal home, here my dwelling place and here I shall be for all time.