Gravestone of Menios

The epitaph reads: Menios, son of Menios, grandson od Skepsos; o stranger, this burial mound conceals the son of Menios, who left behind him many tears, Moira, full of Malice, destroyed Menios, leaving his friends bereft and alone; at the early age of twenty-five, he reached the river Acheron, the entrance to Hades; what resounds within the house where no wedding festivites took place is not the joyful tunes of the couch of matrimony but the cries of mourning from the (nymph) Echo. This epitaph makes many references to Greek mythology and religion: Hades, the god of the Underworld, and the Acheron river which led to the gates of the Underworld.