Funeral games are athletic competitions held in honor of a recently deceased person. The celebration of funeral games was common to a number of ancient...

Funeral games are athletic contests held in honor of a recently deceased person. Funeral Games may also refer to: Funeral Games (novel), a novel by Mary...

Funeral Games is a 1981 historical novel by Mary Renault, dealing with the death of Alexander the Great and its aftermath, the gradual disintegration...

painting can see that it does not depict games of any kind. Second, the actual title of the painting is "The Funeral of Patroclus" is its official title in...

Funerary practices in different cultures A funeral is a ceremony connected with the final disposition of a corpse, such as a burial or cremation, with...

Funeral Games is a 50-minute television play by Joe Orton. Along with Orton's The Good and Faithful Servant, the play was originally written for the Associated...

for generosity. The Roman gladiator games began as funeral gifts for the deceased in high status families. Funeral displays and expenses were supposedly...

Look up funeral in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A funeral is a ceremony marking a person's death. Funeral may also refer to: The Funeral (1984 film)...

vowed a ceremony to her manes, which he exhibited in 46 BC as extensive funeral games including gladiatorial combats. The date of the ceremony was chosen...

In Greece, chariot racing played an essential role in aristocratic funeral games from a very early time. With the institution of formal races and permanent...

defeated the Nemean lion; another myth said that they originated as the funeral games of a child named Opheltes. However, they are known to have existed only...

The first draft was written from June to October 1964 and was called Funeral Games, a title Orton dropped at Halliwell's suggestion but later reused. The...

Trojans—immediately. Eventually (and reluctantly), he consents. During the funeral games for Patroclus, Odysseus becomes involved in a wrestling match with Ajax...

great prize is laid up for their winning, a tripod or a woman, in games for a man’s funeral, so these two swept whirling about the city of Priam in the speed...

while the Pythian Games were held in the third year of the Olympiad cycle. The Games were reputed to have originated as funeral games for Melicertes (also...

are in books 23 and 24. The first of these is the funeral games that are held for Patroclus. The games show the happiness, grief, and joy that can happen...

a dream where Patroclus begs Achilles to hold his funeral, Achilles hosts a series of funeral games in honour of his companion. At the onset of his duel...

stopped at Nemea, where they held funeral games for the infant Opheltes, which became the origin of the Nemean Games. Before arriving at Thebes, Adrastus...

from all injury by Apollo and Aphrodite. The Achaeans then conducted funeral games for Patroclus. Afterwards, Priam came to Achilles' tent, guided by Hermes...

Aeneas holds funeral games for his father that consist of a boat race, foot race, mock battle, boxing, and archery. After the funeral games, the Trojan...

This council was approved by all. In the funeral games of Patroclus, Diomedes (though wounded) wins all the games he plays. First, he participates in the...

Pelasgiotis (Thessaly). There Teutamides, king of Larissa, was holding funeral games for his father. Competing in the discus throw, Perseus's throw veered-and...

Jason, was a native of Pallantium, Arcadia. He participated in the funeral games of Azan and was accidentally killed by Aetolus, who ran him over with...

War, son of Lycaon and brother of Pandarus. He participated in the funeral games of Anchises. Eurytion, a defender of Thebes against the Seven, was killed...

play, it was the second to be performed after his death, following Funeral Games in 1968. Characters Dr Prentice Geraldine Barclay Mrs Prentice Nicholas...

16–20; men: over 20. One thing that was different about these games than normal funeral games is that prizes were given to runners-up, not just the lone...

afterwards regarded as the hero who had founded the town of Segesta. The funeral games of Aeneas's father Anchises were held there. Those of Aeneas's folk...

truce, and Achilles gives Priam leave to hold a proper funeral for Hector, complete with funeral games. He promises that no Greek will engage in combat for...

in performing Patroclus' funeral in Book Twenty-three. Agamemnon volunteers for the javelin throwing contest, one of the games being held in Patroclus'...

theatre: he starred in Joe Orton's Entertaining Mr. Sloane and appeared in Funeral Games.: 257, 326 He produced the musical Be Bop A Lula about rock 'n' roll...