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Author Waldner, Katharina.

Title Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and the Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire

Imprint Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (268 pages)
Contents 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
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
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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Subject Burial -- Rome -- Congresses.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Rome -- Congresses.
Future life -- Congresses.
Civilization, Greco-Roman -- Congresses.
Hellenism -- Congresses.
Rome -- Religious life and customs -- Congresses.
Burial
Civilization, Greco-Roman
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Future life
Hellenism
Rome (Empire)
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Added Author Gordon, Richard.
Spickermann, Wolfgang.
Other Form: 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
9783515115506 (electronic bk.)