Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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998601
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b752971
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Main Entry
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Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane.
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Title & Author
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"Reading" Greek death : : to the end of the classical period /\ Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood.
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Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1995.
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Page. NO
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xi, 489 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations ;; 23 cm
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ISBN
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019814976X
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: 0198150695
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: 9780198149767
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: 9780198150695
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-474) and index.
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Contents
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I. Reading the Greek Discourse of Death. Reading Ancient Texts -- II. Afterlife in the Homeric Poems: Text and Belief. i. Text and Belief. ii. Death and the World of the Dead in Homer. iii. Odyssey 24: The Continuation -- iv. Conclusions: Homeric Eschatologies -- III. Signs of the Dead: The Grave Monument in Homer and the Archaic Age. i. The Grave Monument in Homer. ii. The Grave Monument in the Archaic Age -- IV. Coping with Death: Shifting Attitudes in a Changing World -- V. Charon, Hermes, and the Journey of Death. i. Charon and the Journey to Hades in the Fifth Century. ii. Images of Charon on White-Ground Lekythoi: Reassurance and 'Propitiation'. iii. Shifting Attitudes and Eschatological Mythopoeia: The Emergence of Charon and Hermes Chthonios. iv. Other Views on Charon: A Critique -- VI. Reading (Death) Otherwise: The Case Study of an Archaic Epigram. i. The First and Second Reading Narratives. ii. The Third Reading Narrative: Reading through Archaic Eyes.
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Abstract
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This book offers a series of in-depth studies of some aspects of the beliefs, attitudes, and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece from the Minoan and Mycenean period to the end of the classical age. Drawing on every kind of available evidence - from literary texts to burial customs, inscriptions, and images in art - the author sheds new light on many key, still essentially problematic, aspects of Greek life, myth, and literature: including the world of the dead in Homer; the perceptions associated with grave monuments and articulated in their images and epigrams; the myths of Charon, Hermes, and the journey of death; and the shifting attitudes towards death in a changing society.
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The book is also a sophisticated critique of the methodologies appropriate for interpreting the various kinds of evidence for ancient beliefs, and there is discussion of these in the light of insights from anthropology and other disciplines that can help us reconstruct the ancient Greek discourse of death, while minimizing the intrusion of our own culturally determined assumptions which reflect modern thinking rather than ancient realities.
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Subject
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Death in art.
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Death in literature.
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Death-- Social aspects-- Greece-- Historiography.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies-- Greece-- Historiography.
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Greek literature-- History and criticism.
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Literature and society-- Greece-- Historiography.
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Funeral Rites-- in literature.
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Subject
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Historiography.
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Literature-- greek.
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Literature-- history.
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Thanatology.
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Funérailles-- Rites et cérémonies dans la littérature.
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Funérailles-- Rites et cérémonies-- Grèce-- Historiographie.
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Littérature et société-- Grèce-- Historiographie.
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Littérature grecque-- Histoire et critique.
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Mort dans la littérature.
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Mort dans l'art.
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Mort-- Aspect social-- Grèce-- Historiographie.
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Death in art.
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Death in art.
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Death in literature.
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Death in literature.
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Death-- Social aspects-- Greece-- Historiography.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies-- Historiography.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies-- Greece-- Historiography.
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Greek literature-- History and criticism.
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Greek literature.
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Literature and society-- Historiography.
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Literature and society-- Greece-- Historiography.
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Littérature grecque-- Histoire et critique.
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Manners and customs.
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Mort-- Dans la littérature.
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Mort-- dans l'art grec.
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Mort-- Dans l'art.
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Rites et cérémonies funéraires-- Dans la littérature.
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Rites et cérémonies funéraires.
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Subject
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Sociologie de la mort.
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Subject
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Dodenbezorging.
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Eschatologie.
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Griekse oudheid.
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Subject
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Greece, Social life and customs.
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Greece, Social life and customs.
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Grèce, Mœurs et coutumes.
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Greece, Social life and customs.
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Greece.
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Dewey Classification
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880.9/354
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LC Classification
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PA3015.D43S65 1995
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NLM classification
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PA 3015.D43S724r 1995
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18.43bcl
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20.21bcl
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