In some cases the inscriptions on the graves are written as if the grave is speaking, or the person who died. A voice beyond life.

In other cases the inscription is the words of those left behind. Some of them are quite moving.

The cemetery is also the place where Pericles gave his famous funeral oration. Despite his prominence, no one has ever found the grave of Pericles Athens covered its city in monuments but individuals were more limited in the glory they could lay claim to.