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Hello and welcome to Your Greek Word On A Sunday, a weekly, bite-size podcast for anyone curious on language, etymology and connections. I am your host, Emmanuela Lia and wherever you are in the world, if you want to entertain your brain for a few minutes, this is the podcast for you. Let's Go! 

Happy halloween to those parts in the word celebrating,  I promise to do a carnival episode come February.  These objects were used in ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome respectively they were always placed above ground unless they contained many valuables in which case they were hidden. And…they were meant to hold the dead. Originally they were made from wood, clay or stone depending on the social status of the deceased and they might have started as simply decorated with carved leaves or flowers but they evolved to highly artistic sculpted boxes of battles and festivities. Σάρκα in Greek means flesh, φαγειν is the Ancient Greek infinitive for ‘to eat’ . A big stone box that holds a coffin or a wrapped up dead body is called a ΣΑΡΚΟΦΑΓΟΣ/SARCOPHAGUS

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