[2] Rush Rehm, Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994) 12.

[3] Avagianou 3.

[4] Rehm 14.

[5] Avagianou 6.

[6] Rehm 15.

[7] Georges Duby and Michelle Perrot, A History of Women in the West: From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints (Cambridge: Belknap Press, 1992) 141.

[8] Avagianou 11.

[9] Rehm 17.

[10] Ibid 18.

[11 ] Robert Garland,The Greek Way of Death (New York: Cornell University Press, 1985) 23.

[12] Garland 26.

[13] Redfield, James, "Notes on the Greek Wedding," Arethusa 1982: 187.

[14] Sue Blundell, Women in Ancient Greece (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995) 123.

[15] Rehm 29.

[16] Avagianou 7.

[17] Ibid 130.

[18] Helene P. Foley, The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1994) 2.

[19] Avagianou 134.

[20] Foley 4.

[21] Ibid 38.

[22] Ibid 20.

[23] Rehm 32.

[24] Avagianou 2.

[25] Duby and Perrot 163.

[26] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vaseindex?entry=Philadelphia+30-4-1.

[27] Rehm 30.

[28] Ibid 32.

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