Note * — Chapter XI · The Funerals.
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In the important city of Argos, however, white was the proper funeral color.
[+] This was not originally (as later asserted) a fee to Charon the ferryman to Hades, but simply a “minimum precautionary sum, for the dead man’s use” (Dr. Jane Harrison), placed in the mouth, where a Greek usually kept his small change.