Funeral games
Funeral games are part of the funeral rites of the Greek nobility in archaic times . After the solemn burial and the execution of numerous sacrifices at the grave, the participants of an aristocratic burial probably met in the deceased's house for further celebrations, which included athletic and / or musical competitions. The best-known cases of funeral games are those in honor of Amphidamas of Chalkis , to which the early Greek poet Hesiod traveled. In the literature, the funeral games for Patroclus in Canto 23 of Homer's Iliad should be mentioned.