Couched in Death: Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Ancient corpses in tombs have been found over the years as if relaxing on daybeds during feasts. Elizabeth P. Baughan, an associate professor of classics and archaeology at the University of Richmond in Virginia, explains the comfortable-seeming tomb furniture in a new book, “Couched in Death: Klinai and Identity in Anatolia and Beyond” (University of Wisconsin Press).

Researching Klinai, or Couches, in Ancient Tombs

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The author and scholar Elizabeth P. Baughan has been researching klinai, or banquet couches, that have been found in many ancient tombs in Turkey.