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The author sheds new light on 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. She draws on different types of evidence - from literary texts to burial customs, inscriptions, and images in art - to explore the fragmentary and problematic evidence for the reconstruction of attitudes towards, and the beliefs and practices pertaining to death and the afterlife. The book is also a sophisticated critique of the methodologies appropriate for interpreting the evidence for ancient beliefs. Insights from athropology and other disciplines help to inform the reconstruction of these beliefs and to minimize the intrustion of culturally determined assumptions which reflect modern thinking rather than ancient realities.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: 'Reading' Greek Death
• Subtitle: To the End of the Classical Period
• Author: Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• EAN: 9780198150695
• ISBN: 0198150695
• ID: 04522165
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Weight: 640 g
• Dimensions: 218 × 139 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 27. June 1996

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