Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece Paperback - 2013
by Sarah Iles Johnston
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"[This work] will represent the principal study of ancient Greek beliefs in the intervention of the dead, a topic of acute relevance to the study of classical literature, Greek religion, and the later cultures that spawned curse tablets and versions of Christianity."--David Frankfurter, author of Religion in Roman Egypt
"This is an incontestably useful book. . . . The author's scholarship is remarkable and her competence indisputable. Her laudably courageous and original analysis of the Erinyes leads us from archaic poetry, via the purificatory rituals and reforms of cult brought about by the mysterious Epimenides, to the Orphic tradition recently discovered in the Derveni papyrus--all of which enables Sarah Johnston to conclude by proposing an enthralling rereading of Aeschylus' Oresteia."--Philippe Borgeaud, author of The Cult of Pan in Ancient Greece
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- Title Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
- Author Sarah Iles Johnston
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press
- Date 2013-08-21
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780520280182 / 0520280180
- Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.2 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.05 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: Greece
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-44365
- Dewey Decimal Code 133.109
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