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Restless dead : encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece / Sarah Iles Johnston.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xxi, 329 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520922310
  • 052092231X
  • 0585160368
  • 9780585160368
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Restless dead.DDC classification:
  • 133.1/0938 21
LOC classification:
  • BF1472.G8 J64 1999eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Elpenor and others: narrative descriptions of the dead -- To honor and avert: rituals addressed to the dead -- Magical solutions to deadly problems: the origin and roles of the Go�es -- The unavenged: dealing with those who die violently -- Childless mothers and blighted virgins: female ghosts an their victims -- Hecate and the dying maiden: how the mistress of ghosts earned her title -- Purging the Polis: Erinyes, Eumenides, and Semnai Theai.
Summary: Ancient Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of significant power for those who knew how to control it.
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Elpenor and others: narrative descriptions of the dead -- To honor and avert: rituals addressed to the dead -- Magical solutions to deadly problems: the origin and roles of the Go�es -- The unavenged: dealing with those who die violently -- Childless mothers and blighted virgins: female ghosts an their victims -- Hecate and the dying maiden: how the mistress of ghosts earned her title -- Purging the Polis: Erinyes, Eumenides, and Semnai Theai.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.

Print version record.

Ancient Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions - most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of significant power for those who knew how to control it.

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