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Jean-Marc Luce, « Les modes funéraires et la parole dans la Grèce de l'âge du fer ancien », Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, ID : 10.3917/dha.hs91.0037
Funerary Customs and Speech in Ancient Iron Age Greece It has often been pointed out that ethnic identities are a discursive phenomenon, and it is on this basis that certain practices such as funerary customs have been relegated from their discussion on the basis that the data they provide are too ‘silent’ or archaeological in nature. However, funerary customs must have been discussed, especially in poetry. This paper demonstrates that certain differences existed in the way in which a number of “funerary sequences” are represented in the epic traditions characteristic of the First Iron Age and Early Archaic period.