lite families in Athens were prone to commissioning extravagant , funerary monuments. In 409 BC, for instance, one Diogeiton was asked to spend 5,000 drachmae on his brother’s tomb (Lysias 32.12). Although laws were passed to check such personal demonstrations of wealth and status, they continued. Individual burials were also not commonplace in democratic Athens until the late fifth and early fourth centuries. Prior to this, mass burials for war dead was the more common practice. By the mid to late
