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Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire
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Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire

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Death and the individual are part of a still new and promising field of research in the ancient world. 11 international scholars in the fields of Ancient History, Archaeology, Egyptology, Patristics and History of Religions here explore some of the issues that have now come to the fore. The common concern is the interaction between discourses and practices relating to death, dying, the dead and their post-mortem existence, in the diverse and heterogeneous cultures of the ancient Mediterranean from Hellenistic to Roman Times.The volume is divided into three parts: "From Homer to Lucian - Poetic...