THE DEATH OF THE INDIVIDUAL: WHOLENESS AND FRAGMENTATION IN ANCIENT
GREEK BURIALSCICEK TASCIOGLU BEEBY, ISAW VISITING RESEARCH SCHOLAR
ANCIENT GREEK BELIEFS ABOUT DEATH AND AFTERLIFE HELD FIRM ON THE
NOTION THAT THE DECEASED MUST RECEIVE BURIAL IN ORDER TO BE ACCEPTED
INTO THE UNDERWORLD. THE MANNER OF BURIAL OR THE TYPE OF GRAVE THAT
RECEIVED THE DECEASED, HOWEVER, APPEAR TO HAVE BEEN IMMATERIAL WITH
REGARDS TO RELIGIOUS BELIEF. GREEK BURIAL CUSTOMS SHOWED GREAT
VARIATION REGIONALLY, TEMPORALLY, OR SOMETIMES EVEN WITHIN A SINGLE
CEMETERY AT ANY GIVEN TIME. WAS THE PRESERVATION OF THE MORTAL REMAINS
OF THE DEAD COMPLETELY INCONSEQUENTIAL IN GREEK RELIGION? WHAT LEVEL
OF CARE WAS SHOWN TO RETAIN A DEGREE OF THE BODILY COHESION,
INDIVIDUALITY, AND PERSONHOOD OF THE DECEASED? THIS PAPER USES TWO
CASE STUDIES—THE COMMINGLED INHUMATIONS IN THE CROWDED GRAVES OF
ARGOS AND THE CAREFULLY SEALED MONOLITHIC SARCOPHAGI OF CORINTH—TO
EXPLORE THE ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE HUMAN BODY AFTER DEATH IN GREEK
THOUGHT AND MORTUARY BEHAVIOR.
CICEK TASCIOGLU BEEBY IS A VISITING RESEARCH SCHOLAR AT THE INSTITUTE
FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AT NYU. SHE RECEIVED HER PH.D. FROM
THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL IN 2019, FOLLOWING AN
MA IN CLASSICS AT THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY AND A BA IN ARCHAEOLOGY
AND ART HISTORY AT BILKENT UNIVERSITY IN ANKARA, TURKEY. SHE HAS
PARTICIPATED IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTS IN GREECE, TURKEY, AND THE
UNITED STATES.
HER RESEARCH EXPLORES THE ART, ARCHAEOLOGY, AND SOCIAL HISTORY OF
GREECE IN THE EARLY IRON AGE AND THE ARCHAIC PERIOD, WITH PARTICULAR
FOCUS ON FUNERARY PRACTICES, BIOARCHAEOLOGY, URBANIZATION,
STATE-FORMATION, AND SPATIAL ANALYSIS. HER DISSERTATION,
TITLED _SPATIAL NARRATIVES OF MORTUARY LANDSCAPES IN EARLY IRON AGE
GREECE_, EXAMINES THE SPACE AND PLACE OF BURIAL DURING THE RISE OF THE
GREEK CITY-STATES IN THE 8TH-7TH CENTURIES BC. COMBINING SOCIOLOGICAL
THEORIES ON THE ONTOLOGY OF SPACE WITH MORTUARY ANALYSIS, HER CURRENT
RESEARCH OFFERS NEW DEFINITIONS AND READINGS OF MORTUARY SPACE IN THE
ANCIENT GREEK WORLD. HER WORK HAS BEEN SUPPORTED BY THE WENNER-GREN
FOUNDATION, SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL, AND THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL
INSTITUTE OF AMERICA.
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