Funeral Games (other)
Funeral games are athletic contests held in honor of a recently deceased person. Funeral Games may also refer to: * ''Funeral Games'' (novel), a novel by Mary Renault * ''Funeral Games'' (play), a play by Joe Orton See also * Weddings and Funerals "Weddings and Funerals" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground game. :''A wedding song we played for you,'' ::''The dance you did but scorn.'' :''A woeful dirge we chanted, too,'' ::''But then you would not mourn''. Origin The verse is ..., a playground game * Game of Death (other) * Deathmatch (other) {{disambiguation ...
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Funeral Games
Funeral games are athletic competitions held in honor of a recently deceased person. The celebration of funeral games was common to a number of ancient civilizations. Athletics and games such as wrestling are depicted on Sumerian statues dating from approximately 2600 BC, and funeral games are depicted in early Greek vases, such as the Francois vase at Florence and the Amphiaraus vase in Berlin. In some accounts, funeral games were not merely held to honor the deceased, but in order to propitiate the spirits of those who had died. Ancient Greece According to literary tradition, funeral games were a regular feature of Mycenean Greek society. The ''Iliad'' describes the funeral games held by Achilles in honor of Patroclus, and a similar competition was attributed by Virgil to Aeneas, who held games on the anniversary of his father's death. Many of the contests were similar to those held at the Olympic Games, and although those were held in honor of Zeus, many scholars see the ...
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Funeral Games (novel)
''Funeral Games'' is a 1981 historical novel by Mary Renault, dealing with the death of Alexander the Great and its aftermath, the gradual disintegration of his empire. It is the final book of her Alexander trilogy. Synopsis The chapters of the book have the years of the events for their titles: * 323 BC. Alexander the Great dies in Babylon. Perdikkas seeks to be appointed as Regent for the king's yet-unborn heir. Meleager wants Arrhidaios acclaimed as king. The dispute threatens to become a civil war. Roxane murders the daughters of Darius and their unborn children. Perdikkas becomes Regent, with both Phillip Arrhidaios and Alexander IV (son of Roxane) as nominal joint kings. Ptolemy and Bagoas reach an agreement. The Greeks revolt; Antipatros crushes them. * 322 BC. Perdikkas crushes the Isaurians. Bagoas visits Ptolemy in Alexandria, and together they advance their plans for relocating the mummy of Alexander to that city. The daring plan is carried out, and the Mummy an ...
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Funeral Games (play)
''Funeral Games'' is a 50-minute television play by Joe Orton. Along with Orton's ''The Good and Faithful Servant'', the play was originally written for the Associated Rediffusion series ''Seven Deadly Virtues'', the sequel to its earlier ''Seven Deadly Sins'', which had included his ''The Erpingham Camp''. ''Funeral Games'' followed the general format of the other plays by other writers in the series, in that viewers were expected to decide which virtue they were witnessing before the answer was revealed in the closing credits. The choices were courage, faith, hope, prudence, justice, charity, and temperance. ''The Good And Faithful Servant'' and ''Funeral Games'' represented faith and justice respectively, but ultimately only the first was included in the series, with the justice episode being ''The Whole Truth'' by John Bowen. Both were directed by James Ormerod, who had previously handled ''The Erpingham Camp''. The ''Funeral Games'' script eventually passed to Yorkshire Te ...
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Weddings And Funerals
"Weddings and Funerals" is a nursery rhyme or folksong and playground game. :''A wedding song we played for you,'' ::''The dance you did but scorn.'' :''A woeful dirge we chanted, too,'' ::''But then you would not mourn''. Origin The verse is based on the verses Matthew 11:17 and in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. The exact words of this English nursery rhyme were incorporated as the translation of these verses in the International Standard Version (2008). In context, the verse was spoken by Jesus as a reproach to those people who rejected both the austere lifestyle and preaching of John the Baptist and his own more accessible ministry.Matthew Henry Matthew Henry (18 October 166222 June 1714) was a Nonconformist (Protestantism), Nonconformist minister and author, who was born in Wales but spent much of his life in England. He is best known for the six-volume biblical commentary ''Exposition ...'s Commentary on Matthew 11:16-24, available online aBibleCommenter ...
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Game Of Death (other)
''Game of Death'' is an incomplete Hong Kong film directed, written, produced and starring Bruce Lee, who died during its production. Game of Death can also refer to: * ''A Game of Death'', a 1945 adventure film * ''Game of Death II'', a 1981 sequel to the Bruce Lee film using recycled footage from other Bruce Lee films * ''Game of Death'' (2010 film), a direct-to-DVD action film starring Wesley Snipes * ''The Suicide Club'' (2000 film), an American-Irish film also known as ''The Game of Death'' * ''13 Beloved'', a 2006 Thai film also known as ''13: Game of Death'' See also * ''Le Jeu de la Mort ''Le Jeu de la Mort'' ''(The Game of Death)'' is a French/Swiss television documentary broadcast by the French public television channel France 2. It was presented as a social commentary on the effects of obeying orders and humiliation in reality ...