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1 online resource (268 pages) |
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Intro; INHALT; INTRODUCTION; Part 1: From Homer to Lucian -- Poetics of the Afterlife; Krešimir Matijević: The Evolution of the Afterlife in Archaic Greece; Jan N. Bremmer: The Construction of an Individual Eschatology: The Case of the Orphic Gold Leaves; Matylda Obryk: Prote im Land der Negationen: Per negationem definiertes Nachleben in einer griechischen Grabinschrift; Wolfgang Spickermann: Tod und Jenseits bei Lukian von Samosata und Tatian; Part 2: Individual Elaborations in the Roman Empire |
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Constanze Höpken: Gefangene zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits: Außergewöhnliche Bestattungen im römischen Gräberfeld um St. Gereon in KölnVeit Rosenberger Coping with Death: Private Deification in the Roman Empire; Valentino Gasparini: "I will not be thirsty. My lips will not be dry": Individual Strategies of Re-constructing the Afterlife in the Isiac Cults; Martin Andreas Stadler: Dioskourides, Tanaweruow, Titus Flavius Demetrius et al. Or: How Appealing was an Egyptian Afterlife?; Part 3: Making a Difference: Groups and their Claims |
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Claudia D. Bergmann: Identity on the Menu: Imaginary Meals and Ideas of the World to Come in Jewish Apocalyptic WritingsAndreas Merkt: "A Place for My Body": Aspects of Individualisation in Early Christian Funerary Culture and Eschatological Thought; Richard Gordon: "Den Jungstier auf den goldenen Schultern tragen": Mythos, Ritual und Jenseitsvorstellungen im Mithraskult; INDEX OF SOURCES; ZU DEN AUTOREN |
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Burial -- Rome -- Congresses.
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Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Rome -- Congresses.
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Future life -- Congresses.
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Civilization, Greco-Roman -- Congresses.
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Hellenism -- Congresses.
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Rome -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses.
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Burial |
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Civilization, Greco-Roman |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies |
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Future life |
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Hellenism |
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Rome (Empire) |
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Added Author |
Gordon, Richard.
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Spickermann, Wolfgang.
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Print version: Waldner, Katharina. Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire. Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, ©2016 |
ISBN |
3515115501 |
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9783515115506 (electronic bk.) |
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