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The Antiquities of Arran
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The magnitude of the funeral pile and the tumulus appears to have been proportioned in accordance with the rank and celebrity of the chief in whose honour they were raised But the Greeks and Romans launched out into great extravagance in the time of Alexander in the dimensions and magnificence of their sepulchral monuments. Several laws were made at Athens to restrain the vanity of the Greek tumult builders. Plato proposed a regulation, that no mound should be larger than what five men could complete in five days, nor a pillar higher than would contain four heroic verses.
The magnitude of the funeral pile and the tumulus appears to have been proportioned in accordance with the rank and celebrity of the chief in whose honour they were raised But the Greeks and Romans launched out into great extravagance in the time of Alexander in the dimensions and magnificence of their sepulchral monuments. Several laws were made at Athens to restrain the vanity of the Greek tumult builders. Plato proposed a regulation, that no mound should be larger than what five men could complete in five days, nor a pillar higher than would contain four heroic verses.
228 pages, Paperback
First published July 26, 2015
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