Restless dead : encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece /
Ancient 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. Johnston presents and int...
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| Формат: | Licensed eBooks |
| Язык: | английский |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press
1999.
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| Online-ссылка: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt3fh2v2 |
Оглавление:
- Elpenor and others: narrative descriptions of the dead
- To honor and avert: rituals addressed to the dead
- Magical solutions to deadly problems: the origin and roles of the Goēs
- The unavenged: dealing with those who die violently
- Childless mothers and blighted virgins: female ghosts an their victims
- Hecate and the dying maiden: how the mistress of ghosts earned her title
- Purging the Polis: Erinyes, Eumenides, and Semnai Theai.