부산대학교 도서관

This paper is divided into two sections. The point of the first section is that theancient Greeks used to put their graves outside the city gates, arranged alongside roads, on theface of the belief that the dead’ s memory would be spread in space through the passersby. Inthe second section it is argued that funerary periboloi, a type of massive burial monument thatflourished in Attica in the 4th c. BC, have functioned as a vehicle of promoting the social statusduring the passage of the Athenian society from the collective consciousness of the Classicaltimes to the individualism of the Hellenistic times. With reference to the recently excavated(2007-2008) cemetery of Ayios Dionysios in Piraeus we have tried to explore some ways inwhich these monuments served this function.