Las tumbas colectivas de los caídos en combate en Beocia (siglos V-III a.C.)

José Pascual González

doi:10.5209/geri.68583

The Collective Burials of the War Dead in Boeotia (Fifth to Third Centuries B.C.)

José Pascual González Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.68583

Keywords: Ancient Greece, Boeotia, War Dead, Collective Burials

Abstract

This paper studies the practices used by the Boeotians to bury their war dead through the different sources available: textual, archaeological and epigraphic. In Boeotia, burials in the battlefield seem to have been infrequent, prefering to bury their dead in the necropolis of the city, generally in a collective tumulus, a polyandrion. In addition, cremation seems to be a minority practice against the overwhelming predominance of inhumation. Finally, it seems that they did not place any epigram over the polyandria and they preferred to use steles engraving the names of those that had fallen defending the community.

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Pascual González J. (2020). The Collective Burials of the War Dead in Boeotia (Fifth to Third Centuries B.C.). Gerión. Revista de Historia Antigua, 38(1), 11-36. https://doi.org/10.5209/geri.68583

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