Burial rituals, ideas of afterlife, and the individual in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire /
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.
- 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Alte Geschichte Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge (PAWB), Band 57 1437-6032 ; .
- Potsdamer altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge Bd. 57. .
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 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 ; Den Jungstier auf den goldenen Schultern tragen2: Mythos, Ritual und Jenseitsvorstellungen im Mithraskult / Richard Gordon.
In English; includes four German contributions.
9783515115469
Burial--Rome--Congresses.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome--Congresses.
Future life--Congresses.
Civilization, Greco-Roman--Congresses
Hellenism--Congresses
Rome--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings
DG103 / .B87 2016
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 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 ; Den Jungstier auf den goldenen Schultern tragen2: Mythos, Ritual und Jenseitsvorstellungen im Mithraskult / Richard Gordon.
In English; includes four German contributions.
9783515115469
Burial--Rome--Congresses.
Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome--Congresses.
Future life--Congresses.
Civilization, Greco-Roman--Congresses
Hellenism--Congresses
Rome--Religious life and customs--Congresses.
Conference papers and proceedings
DG103 / .B87 2016