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Afterlife - Post-Mortem Judgments in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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Afterlife - Post-Mortem Judgments in Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece (Hardcover)
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Afterlife argues that proper conduct was believed essential for
determining one's post-mortem judgment from the earliest periods in
ancient Egypt and Greece. affects one's afterlife fate. Dramatists
and demonstrates that post-mortem reward and retribution, based on
one's conduct, is already found in Homer. Pythagoreanism and
Orphism further develop the afterlife beliefs that will have such
enormous impact on Plato and later Christianity. for their
understanding of virtues and vices that have afterlife
consequences. both societies are compared. the elite: the king in
Egypt's Pyramid Texts and the heroes in Homeric Greece.
Nevertheless, we show that, from the earliest times, both societies
believed that the gods, primarily Maat in Egypt and Dike in Greece,
were responsible for the proper ordering of the cosmos and anyone's
violations of that order would reap the direst consequence--the
loss of a beneficent afterlife.
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