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As I. Morris has shown, the Athenians changed their burial customs six times in five centuries (XI-VIth centuries BC), which proves that this behaviour was not linked with any increase of population, nor with eschatological conceptions. In the classical period, when inhumation was in Athens the most common kind of burial, incineration might be considered as an individual choice of some families who, in the society, wanted to imitate the aristocratic ritual of homeric type.
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As I. Morris has shown, the Athenians changed their burial customs six times in five centuries (XI-VIth centuries BC), which proves that this behaviour was not linked with any increase of population, nor with eschatological conceptions. In the classical period, when inhumation was in Athens the most common kind of burial, incineration might be considered as an individual choice of some families who, in the society, wanted to imitate the aristocratic ritual of homeric type.
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