ABSTRACT
The last few decades have witnessed increasing interest in studies concerning the life and death of children. Interdisciplinary approaches and the contribution of bioarchaeology have largely resulted in a better definition of age classes of infants and children and in their identification in the material record. This chapter offers an updated discussion on the representation of children in the mortuary record of the Archaic and Classical Greece. Burials are considered in their archaeological context, with cross-overs in literary sources and the iconography of children, depicted as both themselves, the living mourners, and as the deceased.
