The Greek Way of Death by Garland, Robert - 1985

Cornell University Press, 1985. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Cornell Univ Pr, 1985-07. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Cornell University Press, 1985. Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG

Cornell Univ Pr, 1985. First printing. Hardcover. As New in NF dust jacket. Light shelf wear to book and dust jacket. Very clean, well bound, unmarked in like dust jacket that is now protected in a clear archival cover.

Cornell University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1985. Hardcover. 0801418232 . Scholar's name to ffep (Bonnie Maclachlan [née Ward]). Very minor edgewear to DJ. ; Hardly any aspect of Greek culture, of its religious and philosophical bases, proves as revealing as its way of confronting human mortality and its observances in relation to the dead. Using both historical and anthropological approaches and sources, both visual and written, Garland describes the extensive and elaborate funerary rituals performed by the Greeks for their dead from the time of Homer to the fourth century BC. The book attempts to revive and re-live the complex texture of feelings provoked in the living by the dead as, moment by moment, the two shifted their ground in relation to one another. Death for the Greeks was not an instantaneous event, rather a process or passage which required strenuous efforts on the part of the living to ensure that the dead achieved full and final transfer to… Read More

Cornell Univ Pr. Hardcover. FINE/NEAR FINE. Pristine copy, entirely clean and sharp; DJ has a short tear.

NCROL, 2001-07-05. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!