“[I]n both wedding and funeral the girl is washed, anointed, and given special πέπλοι [gowns] and a special στέφανος [crown] in order to be conveyed on an irreversible, torchlit journey (on a cart) accompanied by song, and to be abandoned by her kin to an unknown dwelling, an alien bed, and the physical control … of an unknown male.”
— From The Tragic Wedding, by Richard Seaford, published in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, Vol. 107 (1987), pp.106-130. (via dostevsky)
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