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Passage Across the river Styx - Aedon - 02-19-2006
Khairete,
What types of coins were placed in the mouths of the Greek dead?
Can one buy these coins or reproductions of them today? If so, where?
I don't want to meet Charon empty handed!
Khairete,
-Aedon
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - hoplite14gr - 02-19-2006
OBOLOS prnounced Ovolos.
Bronze or copper.
There are many sites with images.
Its city had its own.
Kind regards
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - Anonymous - 02-19-2006
What each of us needs is not the money, which has little value, but a friend to give us the proper funerary rites, when the time comes.
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - hoplite14gr - 02-19-2006
Don't pay the ferry man! Don't even fix him price!
Don't pay the ferry man until he gets you to the other side! :twisted:
Kind regards
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - Anonymous - 02-19-2006
Quote:Don't pay the ferry man! Don't even fix him price!
Don't pay the ferry man until he gets you to the other side! :twisted:
Kind regards
:lol:
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - Optio equitum - 02-19-2006
Quote:Don't pay the ferry man! Don't even fix him price!
Don't pay the ferry man until he gets you to the other side! :twisted:
Kind regards
Speaking from experience, or just common sense? :lol:
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - hoplite14gr - 02-19-2006
Quote:hoplite14gr:v4sy0ixm Wrote:Don't pay the ferry man! Don't even fix him price!
Don't pay the ferry man until he gets you to the other side! :twisted:
Kind regards
Speaking from experience, or just common sense? :lol:
Both!!!
Regards
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - Susanne - 02-19-2006
Quote:Both!!!
Regards
Eeeeeek!
hock:
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - conon394 - 02-19-2006
Quote: Don't pay the ferry man! Don't even fix him price!
Don't pay the ferry man until he gets you to the other side!
But he does not have to be seen in such an adversarial way. I can’t remember exactly where but I came across a reference to an Attic grave marker for a child that asked the ferry man to help the child in a out of the boat, since he had just learned to walk and still needed help…
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - hoplite14gr - 02-19-2006
Well, I guess the reference did not specify if the "ferryman" did the job for free.
Kind regards :twisted:
Re: Passage Across the river Styx - Anonymous - 02-20-2006
The reference to helping the child puts me in mind of the way Terry Pratchett portrays Death in his Discworld novels - though inexorable, he is capable of kindness and, though unable to comprehend human feeling, he tries to allow for it.