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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Juliette HarrissonPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.400kg ISBN: 9780367665616ISBN 10: 0367665611 Pages: 196 Publication Date: 30 September 2020 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Juliette Harrisson; Part 1: The Afterlife at Greek Funerary Sites; 1. Visualizing the Afterlife in Classical Athens: Interactions between the Living and the Dead on White-Ground Lêkythoi, Molly Evangeline Allen; 2. Phrasikleia: Playing with Signs, Nick Brown; Part 2: The afterlife at Roman and Etruscan Funerary Sites; 3. ""Break on Through to the Other Side"": The Etruscan Netherworld and its Demons, Isabella Bossolino; 4. Guide of Souls? Mercurius Psychopompos in Roman Dalmatia, Josipa Lulić; 5. Funerary Dining Scenes in Roman Tombs: Ensuring Happiness in the Afterlife, Gabriela Ingle; Part 3: The Afterlife in Literature; 6. Cosmology, Psychopomps, and Afterlife in Homer’s Odyssey, Safari F. Grey; 7. Daphnis’ Tomb: Space for Immortality in Virgil’s 5th Eclogue, Stephanie Crooks; 8. Reality and Unreality: Literature and Folklore in Propertius 4.7, Juliette Harrisson; Part 4: The Afterlife in Late Antique Tradition; 9. A Ritual of the Afterlife or the Afterlife of a Ritual: Maschalismos in Ancient Greece and Beyond, Julia Doroszewska and Janek Kucharski; 10. Servius on Virgil’s Underworld in Late Antiquity, Frances Foster; Index"ReviewsThis collection of essays, predominantly by up-and-coming scholars, speaks to the desideratum in scholarship for a wide-ranging view of the Classical afterlife. Its editor Juliette Harrisson has drawn on the work of an international group of scholars to produce a diverse selection of essays, which between them cover aspects of the period from Archaic Greece to late antiquity. Beginning with an editorial discussion of the interface between writing, practice and 'belief,' the book's four parts deal with material evidence from Greece; evidence from Etruria and provincial Rome; and literary and late antique approaches to afterlife belief and practice. This will be a useful collection for anyone wishing to grasp the parameters of the growing field of study of the Classical afterlife. - Emma Gee, University of St Andrew's, UK Its breadth is such that it will offer almost all readers entree to new issues, topics, and subject matter. We may hope that future researchers will follow up on the questions that its contributors raise about the imaginary realm of the afterlife and its permutations in the ancient world. - Bryn Mawr Classical Review These essays attend to many fascinating aspects of imagining the afterlife: the literary/material portrayals, the creators of the representations, the bereaved persons and the wider communal settings, inter alia; as such, it is strongly recommended for scholars of classics and ancient religion. - The Classical Journal The regional boundaries of the collection means that the title is something of a misnomer, for readers will not find contributions on ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, for example. Although the selections are situated in classical studies and some contributions include linguistic discussions and other specialist material that will be alien to the non-classici This collection of essays, predominantly by up-and-coming scholars, speaks to the desideratum in scholarship for a wide-ranging view of the Classical afterlife. Its editor Juliette Harrisson has drawn on the work of an international group of scholars to produce a diverse selection of essays, which between them cover aspects of the period from Archaic Greece to late antiquity. Beginning with an editorial discussion of the interface between writing, practice and 'belief,' the book's four parts deal with material evidence from Greece; evidence from Etruria and provincial Rome; and literary and late antique approaches to afterlife belief and practice. This will be a useful collection for anyone wishing to grasp the parameters of the growing field of study of the Classical afterlife. - Emma Gee, University of St Andrew's, UK Its breadth is such that it will offer almost all readers entree to new issues, topics, and subject matter. We may hope that future researchers will follow up on the questions that its contributors raise about the imaginary realm of the afterlife and its permutations in the ancient world. - Bryn Mawr Classical Review These essays attend to many fascinating aspects of imagining the afterlife: the literary/material portrayals, the creators of the representations, the bereaved persons and the wider communal settings, inter alia; as such, it is strongly recommended for scholars of classics and ancient religion. - The Classical Journal The regional boundaries of the collection means that the title is something of a misnomer, for readers will not find contributions on ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia, for example. Although the selections are situated in classical studies and some contributions include linguistic discussions and other specialist material that will be alien to the non-classicist, Greek and Roman passages are translated and terms defined. Harrisson's introduction is also helpful in setting the stage for Classicists and non-Classicists alike. Readers from the study of religions, archaeology, history, and other disciplines will find much of interest in this collection. - Gregory Shushan, Reading Religion Author InformationJuliette Harrisson is a Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Newman University in Birmingham, UK. Her primary research interests lie in Roman period myth and religion, and in the reception of ancient Greece and Rome in modern popular culture, especially film, television and novels. Her monograph, Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire: Cultural Memory and Imagination was published in 2013, and she is also the co-editor of Memory and Urban Religion in the Ancient World (with Martin Bommas and Phoebe Roy). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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