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Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World (Paperback)
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Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World (Paperback)
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Human beings have speculated about whether or not there is life
after death, and if so, what form that life might take, for
centuries. What did people in the ancient world think the next life
would hold, and did they imagine there was a chance for a
relationship between the living and the dead? How did people in the
ancient world keep their dead loved ones alive through memory, and
were they afraid the dead might return and haunt the living in
another form? What sort of afterlife did the ancient Greeks and
Romans imagine for themselves? This volume explores these questions
and more. While individual representations of the afterlife have
often been examined, few studies have taken a more general view of
ideas about the afterlife circulating in the ancient world. By
drawing together current research from international scholars on
archaeological evidence for afterlife belief, chiefly from funerary
sites, together with studies of works of literature, this volume
provides a broader overview of ancient ideas about the afterlife
than has so far been available. Imagining the Afterlife in the
Ancient World explores these key questions through a series of
wide-ranging studies, taking in ghosts, demons, dreams, cosmology,
and the mutilation of corpses along the way, offering a valuable
resource to those studying all aspects of death in the ancient
world
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