epitaphios

At the end of the procession, the Epitaphios is brought back to the church.

The service takes place with the clergy and people gathered around the epitaphios in the center of the church.

At the end of the service all come forward to venerate the Epitaphios.

This text is considered to be an important contribution to the genre of epitaphios.

Through the epitaphios, a civic discourse, the city recognizes itself as it wishes to be.

The priest may also anoint the Epitaphios with perfumed oil.

The form which the veneration of the epitaphios takes will vary between ethnic traditions.

In Homer very few elements of epitaphios logos or laudation are found.

Then the priest may deliver a homily and everyone comes forward to venerate the epitaphios.

The image developed from the Byzantine epitaphios image, which possibly dates back to the 8th century.

This last is especially important in Orthodox art, where it is shown on the Epitaphios.

The Epitaphios is used in the Greek Easter services.

Sometimes, the faithful will crawl under the table on which the Epitaphios has been placed, as though entering into death with Christ.

Therefore, the epitaphios consists of the following parts:

The Epitaphios is clearly visible through the open doors, and thus symbolizes the winding sheet left in the tomb after the resurrection.

The epitaphios will lay in the tomb until the Paschal Service early Sunday morning.

A chalice veil and the Gospel Book is placed on top of the Epitaphios.

Then the priest and faithful venerate the Epitaphios as the choir chants hymns.

In some churches, the epitaphios is never left alone, but is accompanied 24 hours a day by a reader chanting from the Psalter.

In some Greek churches, an elaborately carved canopy, called a kouvouklion, stands over the Epitaphios.

Such a preamble reveals the position of the epitaphios as an oral genre within a ritually and socially bounded society.

The banners are used in all church processions, except the procession on Great Saturday, when the Epitaphios is carried.

In Slavic churches, the Epitaphios alone is carried in procession with candles and incense.

Epitaphios may refer to:

The funeral oration of Pericles, as reported by Thucydides, is the earliest epitaphios presented in full.