Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece - Couverture souple

Johnston, Sarah Iles

 
9780520280182: Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
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ISBN 10 : 0520280180 ISBN 13 : 9780520280182
Editeur : University of California Press, 2013

Synopsis

During the archaic and classical periods, 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. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles 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. She draws on both well-known sources, such as Athenian tragedies, and newer texts, such as the Derveni Papyrus and a recently published lex sacra from Selinous.

Topics of focus include the origin of the goes (the ritual practitioner who made interaction with the dead his specialty), the threat to the living presented by the ghosts of those who died dishonorably or prematurely, the development of Hecate into a mistress of ghosts and its connection to female rites of transition, and the complex nature of the Erinyes. Restless Dead culminates with a new reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia that emphasizes how Athenian myth and cult manipulated ideas about the dead to serve political and social ends.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sarah Iles Johnston is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of Classics at the Ohio State University. Her many books include Ancient Greek Divination and, with Fritz Graf, Ritual Texts for the Afterlife: Orpheus and the Bacchic Gold Tablets.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520280180
ISBN 13 
9780520280182
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
356
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780520217072: Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0520217071 ISBN 13 :  9780520217072
Editeur : University of California Press, 1999
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