Sêma
idea · 2 works · 10 mentions · 19 anchored passages
sêma · tomb · sign · sêmata · convincing proofs · grave marker · in token · manifest proof · mark · proof
in the texts
Odyssey
The concept of a divinely given sign, named explicitly as the miller-woman speaks after the thunder.
The others had ground their task and had gone to take their rest, but this one had not yet finished, for she was not so strong as they were, and when she heard the thunder she stopped grinding and gave the sign [ sêma] to her master.
If on the other hand I hear of his death, I will return at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a grave marker [ sêma] to his memory, and make my mother marry again.
If on the other hand you hear of his death, come home at once, celebrate his funeral rites with all due pomp, build a grave marker [ sêma] to his memory, and make your mother marry again.
Iliad
The Greek concept of a sign or tomb-marker, explicitly glossed as 'sêma' in describing the tomb of Ilos.
They flew on by the tomb [ sêma] of old Ilos, son of Dardanos, in the middle of the plain, and past the place of the wild fig-tree making always for the city - the son of Atreus still shouting, and with hands all bedrabbled in gore;
It may have been a tomb [ sêma] of someone who died long ago, or it may have been used as a turning-post in days gone by;
They marked off the circle where the tomb [ sêma] should be, made a foundation for it about the pyre, and forthwith heaped up the earth.