Note 30 — Chapter VIII · Tombs.
N. D'Anvers translation
In the early days of history, cremation was practised all over Europe. The Greeks attribute its inauguration to Hercules, and the funeral pile of Patrokles is described in the Iliad. The Pelasgians and the Proto-Etruscans burned their dead,30 and we are told of the incineration of contemporaries of Jair, the third judge of Israel.