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Liana Miate
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published on 29 June 2022
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Gold wreaths that imitate natural ones come mainly from royal tombs in Macedonia, Asia Minor and southern Italy. The crowning of the dead with a wreath signified that they were worthy of being rewarded with eternal life after death.

The preference for a particular plant species was presumably related to the deity worshipped by the family of the deceased. Wreaths of myrtle are associated with Aphrodite, Demeter and Persephone.

4th-3rd century BCE. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).

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Liana Miate
Liana is the Social Media Editor for Ancient History Encyclopedia. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree with a major in ancient Greece, Rome & Late Antiquity. She is particularly passionate about Rome and Greece, and anything to do with mythology or women.

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Miate, L. (2022, June 29). Myrtle Wreath. World History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.worldhistory.org/image/16095/myrtle-wreath/

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