Unit:
Κατεύθυνση Κλασική ΑρχαιολογίαLibrary of the School of Philosophy
Author:
Konstantinidi Katerina
Supervisors info:
Δημήτρης Πλάντζος, Αναπλ. Καθηγητής Κλασικής Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Γιώργος Βαβουρανάκης, Αναπλ. Καθηγητής Προϊστορικής Αρχαιολογίας, ΕΚΠΑ
Βύρων Αντωνιάδης, Ερευνητής του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών
Original Title:
Ταφικά Έθιμα της Πρώιμης Εποχής του Σιδήρου: ταφές στην Αγορά και τον Κεραμεικό της Αθήνας
Translated title:
Early Iron Age Mortuary Practices: burials in the Agora and the Kerameikos of Athens
Summary:
The mortuary practices are a performance. These practices can describe the way that the living wants to define the personhood of the deceased. The aim of this dissertation is to examine how a new identity can emerge through the acts and gestures of mortuary practices in the Early Iron Age. Each chapter examines one out of the three stages of the rites of passage, these being the stage of Separation, Liminality, and Reaggregation. The way that the living manages and interacts with the body of the dead in the cemetery of Kerameikos and Agora of Athens, the types of grave gifts that are being used and the relationship with the earlier graves are some of the subjects touched in this thesis. The new identity can be described through the materiality and biography of the grave gifts and the personhood of the dead is being embedded onto the collective memory. Thus, it seems that the identity of the deceased depends on the wishes of the living during all the stages of the rites of passage.
Main subject category:
Archaeology
Keywords:
Archaeology, EIA, Early Iron Age, mortuary practices, materiality, agency, personhood, Agora, Kerameikos, Athens, grave, tomb, Plantzos, Konstantinidi
Number of references:
111
