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Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature (Hardcover)
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Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature (Hardcover)
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The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both
Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate of man
after his/her allotted time has come to an end has a central
position in poetry, philosophy and religion, often leading to
questions and answers as to how one can best live one's life, and
how can one deal with the burden of mortality that is inherent in
every human being. The Greeks devoted a considerable amount of
their literary production in an attempt to answer these questions
through a variety of different media, whereas similar concerns
appear to have been at the core of the ancient world in general.
This volume represents the first to examine the influences,
intersections, and developments of understandings of death and the
afterlife between poetic, religious, and philosophical traditions
in ancient Greece in one resource. Greek thinking on death and the
afterlife was neither uniform, simple, nor static, and by offering
an examination of these matters in a properly interdisciplinary
context this collection of papers aims to demonstrate the full
richness, complexity, and flexibility of these ideas in the ancient
Greek world, and illuminate how freely writers from various genres
drew inspiration from each other's thinking concerning
eschatological matters. Contributors: Alberto Benarbe; Rick
Benitez; Nicolo Benzi; Chiara Blanco; Radcliffe Edmonds; George
Alexander Gazis; Anthony Hooper; Vaios Liapis; Alex Long; Ioannis
Ziogas.
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