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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.

Contributor(s): Waldner, Katharina [editor.] | Gordon, R. L. (Richard Lindsay) [editor.] | Spickermann, Wolfgang [editor.] | Universität Erfurt [host institution.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English, German Series: Alte Geschichte | Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge ; Bd. 57.Publisher: Stuttgart : Franz Steiner Verlag, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated | unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volume | volumeISBN: 9783515115469Subject(s): Burial -- Rome -- Congresses | Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Rome -- Congresses | Future life -- Congresses | Civilization, Greco-Roman -- Congresses | Hellenism -- Congresses | Rome -- Religious life and customs -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedingsAdditional physical formats: No titleLOC classification: DG103 | .B87 2016
Contents:
Contents: Introduction / Katharina Waldner, Richard Gordon, Wolfgang Spickermann ; Part 1: From Homer to Lucian {u2013} 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 ; {u201E}Den Jungstier auf den goldenen Schultern tragen2: Mythos, Ritual und Jenseitsvorstellungen im Mithraskult / Richard Gordon.
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Proceedings of a conference held at the Universität Erfurt in September 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents: Introduction / Katharina Waldner, Richard Gordon, Wolfgang Spickermann ; Part 1: From Homer to Lucian {u2013} 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 ; {u201E}Den Jungstier auf den goldenen Schultern tragen2: Mythos, Ritual und Jenseitsvorstellungen im Mithraskult / Richard Gordon.

In English; includes four German contributions.