Question for the LJ hivemind
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caitirin ask this question for me a couple of months ago, but that post got mostly flippant answers, so I thought I'd post again in case anybody missed it.
Have you heard of any culture (in antiquity is what I'm thinking, but I could be wrong) who would dig up the body of a loved one and put it on your doorstep if they were really angry at you? I swear I read this somewhere, but I have the sneaking suspicion it may have involved Anne Rice, and I don't trust anything that woman says as far as I could throw it. Her. Um. You get the idea.
I had a conversation with_melisande_ to the effect that funereal customs were so important to the Greeks that they wouldn't do this sort of thing, but it sounds like something that might have gone on with the Mesopotamians or Egyptians. Anyone have any thoughts?
This is, incidentally, all for an extended metaphor in a Philip Marlowe thing I'm writing, and Marlowe clearly has a classical education and would know these things, so I want to be accurate.
Thank you, oh great f'list!
caitirin ask this question for me a couple of months ago, but that post got mostly flippant answers, so I thought I'd post again in case anybody missed it.Have you heard of any culture (in antiquity is what I'm thinking, but I could be wrong) who would dig up the body of a loved one and put it on your doorstep if they were really angry at you? I swear I read this somewhere, but I have the sneaking suspicion it may have involved Anne Rice, and I don't trust anything that woman says as far as I could throw it. Her. Um. You get the idea.
I had a conversation with
_melisande_ to the effect that funereal customs were so important to the Greeks that they wouldn't do this sort of thing, but it sounds like something that might have gone on with the Mesopotamians or Egyptians. Anyone have any thoughts?This is, incidentally, all for an extended metaphor in a Philip Marlowe thing I'm writing, and Marlowe clearly has a classical education and would know these things, so I want to be accurate.
Thank you, oh great f'list!
