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Cover 1 Title 6 Copyright 7 Dedication 8 Contents 10 List of figures 12 List of contributors 14 Acknowledgements 18 Introduction 20 PART 1 The afterlife at Greek funerary sites 32 1 Visualizing the afterlife in Classical Athens: Interactions between the living and the dead on white-ground lêkythoi 34 2 Phrasikleia: Playing with signs 52 PART 2 The afterlife at Roman and Etruscan funerary sites 68 3 'Break on through to the other side': The Etruscan Netherworld and its demons 70 4 Guide of souls? Mercurius Psychopompos in Roman Dalmatia 88 5 Funerary dining scenes in Roman tombs: Ensuring happiness in the afterlife 102 PART 3 The afterlife in literature 118 6 Cosmology, psychopomps, and afterlife in Homer's Odyssey 120 7 Daphnis' tomb: Space for immortality in Virgil's 5th Eclogue 136 8 Reality and unreality: Literature and folklore in Propertius 4.7 152 PART 4 The afterlife in Late Antique tradition 172 9 A ritual of the afterlife or the afterlife of a ritual: Maschalismos in Ancient Greece and beyond 174 10 Servius on Virgil's underworld in Late Antiquity 192 Index 210
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Juliette Harrisson
- Published
- 2019
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction