Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520280182ISBN-10:520280180UPC:9780520280182Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Customs & Traditions, Christian Rituals & PracticeBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCQGEWY6XF
Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions-most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520280182ISBN-10:520280180UPC:9780520280182Book Category:Social Science, ReligionBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Customs & Traditions, Christian Rituals & PracticeBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.1001Product ID:SCQGEWY6XF
Sarah Iles Johnston is Associate Professor of Greek and Latin at Ohio State University. She is author of Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature (1990) and coeditor of Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art (1997).
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