The Greek Way of Death

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The Greek Way of Death
The Greek Way of Death
Author : Robert Garland
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 08 May 2024
ISBN : 0801487463
Pages : 228 pages
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The Greek Way of Death by Robert Garland Book PDF Summary

"Death for the Greeks was not an instantaneous event, rather a process or passage which required strenuous efforts on the part of the living to ensure that the dead achieved full and final transfer to the next world. The central questions which this book attempts to answer are: the extent to which death was a preoccupying concern among the Greeks; the feelings with which the individual may have anticipated his death; the nature of the bonds between the living and the dead; and the light shed by burial practices upon characteristic elements of Greek society. While the beliefs of ordinary Greeks about their ordinary dead form the book's central focus, there is also a chapter on 'special dead' - the unburied, murderers and their victims, children, and suicides."--BOOK JACKET.

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