Imagining the afterlife in the ancient world. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Juliette Harrisson.
• Editors: Harrisson, Juliette
• Contents: List of figures List of contributors Acknowledgements Introduction Juliette Harrisson Part 1: The Afterlife at Greek Funerary Sites 1. Visualizing the Afterlife in Classical Athens: Interactions between the Living and the Dead on White-Ground Lêkythoi Molly Evangeline Allen 2. Phrasikleia: Playing with Signs Nick Brown Part 2: The afterlife at Roman and Etruscan Funerary Sites 3. "Break on Through to the Other Side": The Etruscan Netherworld and its Demons Isabella Bossolino 4. Guide of Souls? Mercurius Psychopompos in Roman Dalmatia Josipa Lulić 5. Funerary Dining Scenes in Roman Tombs: Ensuring Happiness in the Afterlife Gabriela Ingle Part 3: The Afterlife in Literature 6. Cosmology, Psychopomps, and Afterlife in Homer’s Odyssey Safari F. Grey 7. Daphnis’ Tomb: Space for Immortality in Virgil’s 5th Eclogue Stephanie Crooks 8. Reality and Unreality: Literature and Folklore in Propertius 4.7 Juliette Harrisson Part 4: The Afterlife in Late Antique Tradition 9. A Ritual of the Afterlife or the Afterlife of a Ritual: Maschalismos in Ancient Greece and Beyond Julia Doroszewska and Janek Kucharski 10. Servius on Virgil’s Underworld in Late Antiquity Frances Foster Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 202.3093; Future life -- History -- To 1500; Death -- Religious aspects; Future life in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351578394; 9781351578400; 9781351578387; 9781315097879
• Related ISBNs: 9781138299795
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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