Burial rituals, ideas of afterlife, and the individual in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire

Burial rituals, ideas of afterlife, and the individual in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire / edited by Katharina Waldner, Richard Gordon, and Wolfgang Spickermann.

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Other Authors: Waldner, Katharina (Editor), Gordon, R. L. (Richard Lindsay) (Editor), Spickermann, Wolfgang (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2016]
Series:Alte Geschichte (Stuttgart, Germany)
Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Bd. 57.
Subjects:
Burial > Rome > Congresses.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Rome > Congresses.
Future life > Congresses.
Civilization, Greco-Roman > Congresses.
Hellenism > Congresses.
Rome > Religious life and customs > Congresses.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Katharina Waldner, Richard Gordon, Wolfgang Spickermann ; Part 1: From Homer to Lucian
  • Poetics of the Afterlife. The Evolution of the Afterlife in Archaic Greece / Krešimir Matijević ; The Construction of an Individual Eschatology: The Case of the Orphic Gold Leaves / Jan N. Bremmer ; Prote im Land der Negationen: Per negationem definiertes Nachleben in einer griechischen Grabinschrift / Matylda Obryk ; Tod und Jenseits bei Lukian von Samosata und Tatian / Wolfgang Spickermann ; Part 2: Individual Elaborations in the Roman Empire. Gefangene zwischen Diesseits und Jenseits: Außergewöhnliche Bestattungen im römischen Gräberfeld um St. Gereon in Köln / Constanze Höpken ; Coping with Death: Private Deification in the Roman Empire / Veit Rosenberger ý ; 2I will not be thirsty. My lips will not be dry3: Individual Strategies of Re-constructing the Afterlife in the Isiac Cults / Valentino Gasparini ; Dioskourides, Tanaweruow, Titus Flavius Demetrius et al. Or: How Appealing was an Egyptian Afterlife? / Martin Andreas Stadler ; Part 3: Making a Difference: Groups and their Claims. Identity on the Menu: Imaginary Meals and Ideas of the World to Come in Jewish Apocalyptic Writings / Claudia D. Bergmann ; 2A Place for My Body3: Aspects of Individualisation in Early Christian Funerary Culture and Eschatological Thought / Andreas Merkt ; „Den Jungstier auf den goldenen Schultern tragen2: Mythos, Ritual und Jenseitsvorstellungen im Mithraskult / Richard Gordon.

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