Ritual Texts For The Afterlife (Inbunden)
avFritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston
ISBN: 9780415508025 - UTGIVEN: 2013-05-02
Ritual Texts for the Afterlife (Häftad)
avFritz Graf, Sarah Iles Johnston
ISBN: 9780415508032 - UTGIVEN: 201303Fascinating texts written on small gold tablets that were deposited in graves provide a unique source of information about what some Greeks and Romans believed regarding the fate that awaited them after death, and how they could influence it. These texts, dating from the late fifth century BCE to t[...]
Restless Dead (Pocket)
avSarah Iles Johnston
ISBN: 9780520280182 - UTGIVEN: 2013-08During the archaic and classical periods, 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 Ne[...]
Religions of the Ancient World: A Guide (Inbunden)
avSarah Iles Johnston
ISBN: 9780674015173 - UTGIVEN: 200411Materials from ten different cultures and traditions that arose and developed in Mediterranean religions are presented side by side in an incisive study of the complexities of the ancient spiritual world, which interprets these specific beliefs, rituals, practices, gods, and cults in comparison with[...]
Ancient Greek Divination (Inbunden)
avSarah Iles Johnston
ISBN: 9781405115728 - UTGIVEN: 2008-09-30
Ancient Religions (Pocket)
avSarah Iles (EDT) Johnston
ISBN: 9780674025486 - UTGIVEN: 2007-09Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, travelled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated wi[...]
