While some cultures celebrate death as the beginning of life, this scene clearly demonstrates that the Greeks celebrated life over death. This scene also brings in a great deal of psychology surrounding how the culture developed their beliefs of death, and it elegantly tackles both how people handled death around them and death in general. Their intricate beliefs involving the underworld, the treatment of their dead, and their other customs around death are all coping mechanisms. By developing a full and clear image of a good afterlife, they could say they had an answer to the human question of mortality and ease their minds. This single short passage gives us a great deal of insight into how Greek society as a whole met with the impossible question of
While some cultures celebrate death as the beginning of life, this scene clearly demonstrates that the Greeks celebrated life over death. This scene also brings in a great deal of psychology surrounding how the culture developed their beliefs of death, and it elegantly tackles both how people handled death around them and death in general. Their intricate beliefs involving the underworld, the treatment of their dead, and their other customs around death are all coping mechanisms. By developing a full and clear image of a good afterlife, they could say they had an answer to the human question of mortality and ease their minds. This single short passage gives us a great deal of insight into how Greek society as a whole met with the impossible question of