As for the honours assigned to the King at his death, the intention of the
						laws of Lycurgus herein is to show that they have preferred the Kings of the
						Lacedaemonians in honour not as mere men, but as demigods. Herodotus (6.58) gives details of these honours. The
							elaborate funeral obsequies were attended by a great concourse of men
							and women from all parts of Laconia . A man and a woman in every family were
							compelled to go into mourning. If a king died on foreign service his
							body was embalmed and brought home if possible; if not, an image of him,
							as in the case of Agesilaus, was buried.