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Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century BC, Robert Garland seeks to show what the ordinary Greek felt about death and the dead. The second edition features a substantial new prefatory essay in which Garland addresses recent questions and debates about death and the early Greeks. The book also includes an updated Supplementary Bibliography.
There are seven chapters. 1. The Power and Status of the Dead. 2. Dying 3. The Funeral 4. Between Worlds 5. Life in Hades. 6. The Special Dead. 7. Visiting the Tomb.
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Some of these books on myth that are written by professors can be difficult to read. This book is not like that. This book is easy to ready and understand. The information in it is very good. There is much about how the ancients thought about death that we just don't know. This book will tell you the little we do know about on how the Greeks thought about death. No definite answers, but very interesting.
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By way of prologue, it will be useful to provide an outline of the physical and mental condition of those who lived 'over there' (ekei), as Hades was obliquely termed: that is to say, the character, temperament and resourcefulness of the Greek dead together with some idea of their status and standing vis-ŕ-vis the world of the living and the world of the gods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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By way of prologue, it will be useful to provide an outline of the physical and mental condition of those who lived 'over there' (ekei), as Hades was obliquely termed: that is to say, the character, temperament and resourcefulness of the Greek dead together with some idea of their status and standing vis-ŕ-vis the world of the living and the world of the gods. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
offering trenches, funerary legislation, funerary plaques, murdered dead, infant dead, tomb cult, underworld deities, fourth cent, ritual lament, sculptural representations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Eleusinian Mysteries, The Greek Way of Death, Hermes Psychopompos, Sappho Painter, Isles of the Blest New!
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- Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Sather Classical Lectures) by Emily Vermeule in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance Series) by Nicholas Rudall on page 74, and page 84
- Mortals and Immortals by Jean-Pierre Vernant in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- A History of Greek Religion by Martin Persson Nilsson in Back Matter
- Greek Hero Cults and Ideas of Immortality by Lewis Richard Farnell in Back Matter
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- From Autothanasia to Suicide: Self-killing in Classical Antiquity by Anton J. L. van Hooff in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death (Contestations) by John Evan Seery in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi by Michael Koortbojian on page 38, page 53, and page 66
- Formation of Hell: Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds by Alan E. Bernstein on page 25, page 84, and Back Matter
- Women & the Historical Jesus: Feminist Myths of Christian Origins by Kathleen E. Corley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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