Posts: 46
Threads: 11
Joined: Apr 2005
Reputation:
0
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
Felix Lucini
It will not be long before you have forgotten all the world, and in a little time all the world will have forgotten you.
Posts: 4,029
Threads: 90
Joined: May 2005
Reputation:
0
OBOLOS prnounced Ovolos.
Bronze or copper.
There are many sites with images.
Its city had its own.
Kind regards
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.
Posts: 4,029
Threads: 90
Joined: May 2005
Reputation:
0
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
Posts: 118
Threads: 1
Joined: Sep 2005
Reputation:
0
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…
Paul Klos
\'One day when I fly with my hands -
up down the sky,
like a bird\'
Posts: 4,029
Threads: 90
Joined: May 2005
Reputation:
0
Well, I guess the reference did not specify if the "ferryman" did the job for free.
Kind regards :twisted:
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.
hock:
![[Image: partofE448.jpg]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v176/GloryofSparta/partofE448.jpg)
