TY - BOOK AU - Waldner,Katharina AU - Gordon,R.L. AU - Spickermann,Wolfgang ED - Universität Erfurt TI - Burial rituals, ideas of afterlife, and the individual in the Hellenistic world and the Roman Empire T2 - Alte Geschichte SN - 9783515115469 AV - DG103 .B87 2016 PY - 2016///] CY - Stuttgart PB - Franz Steiner Verlag KW - Burial KW - Rome KW - Congresses KW - Funeral rites and ceremonies KW - Future life KW - Civilization, Greco-Roman KW - Hellenism KW - Religious life and customs KW - Conference papers and proceedings KW - fast N1 - 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 ER -