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Restless Dead : Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is Restless Dead : Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece about?
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 <i>Restless Dead</i>, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the livin
Who reads Restless Dead : Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Sarah Iles Johnston
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Published
- 1999
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780585160368
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Science, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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