... 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 Greek ... ...

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