... legislation was introduced to try and curb ostentatious behavior by women at funerals. Proper mourning and burial were extremely important to the ancient Greeks. In the play, Antigone, by the tragedarian dramatist Sophocles, Antigone was willing to sacrifice her reputation and life to properly bury her brother against the wishes of the king. Divorce was relatively unknown in the early years of ... of the importance of Demeter. She was the mother of Persephone, who was seized by Hades, the god of the underworld, and made his wife. Demeter finally won release for her daughter for half of ...

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