Linked to all the nocturnal powers of confusion that mark a return to the indistinct and unformed, Death, companionate with the tribe of his kin – Sleep, Fatigue, Hunger, Old Age – proclaims the failure, the incompleteness of a body, whose visible aspect – its contours, radiance, external beauty – and inner forces of desire, feeling, thoughts, and plans can never be found in a perfectly pure state… Thus, for the Greeks of the archaic period, man’s misfortune is not that a divine and immortal soul finds itself imprisoned in the envelope of a material and perishable body, but that his body is not fully unified.

Vernant J-P. Mortals and Immortals. P. 33