Restless dead :
Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957-
Restless dead : encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece / Sarah Iles Johnston. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. - 1 online resource (xxi, 329 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.
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.
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.
9780520922310 052092231X 0585160368 9780585160368
22573/ctt3dqhpk JSTOR 98A826D4-954F-4133-B25E-A3A8038F347C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Ghosts--History.--Greece
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Supernatural.
RELIGION--Antiquities & Archaeology.
Ghosts.
Religion.
Dodenrijk.
Beeldvorming.
Sociale aspecten.
Riten.
Griekse oudheid.
Greece--Religion.
Greece.
Electronic books.
History.
BF1472.G8 / J64 1999eb
133.1/0938
Restless dead : encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece / Sarah Iles Johnston. - Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999. - 1 online resource (xxi, 329 pages)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and index.
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.
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.
9780520922310 052092231X 0585160368 9780585160368
22573/ctt3dqhpk JSTOR 98A826D4-954F-4133-B25E-A3A8038F347C OverDrive, Inc. http://www.overdrive.com
Ghosts--History.--Greece
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT--Supernatural.
RELIGION--Antiquities & Archaeology.
Ghosts.
Religion.
Dodenrijk.
Beeldvorming.
Sociale aspecten.
Riten.
Griekse oudheid.
Greece--Religion.
Greece.
Electronic books.
History.
BF1472.G8 / J64 1999eb
133.1/0938
