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Aeneid VI
ancient afterlife concepts
Ancient Greece
Ancient Necromancy
ancient religions
antiquity
archaic
Archaic Period
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Bacchic Mysteries
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christiane
Christiane Sourvinou Inwood
Cypress
Derveni Papyrus
Diogenes
Diogenes Laertius
Dk
early christianity studies
Early Greek Concept
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eschatology
Follow
Gold Leaves
hymns
King William III
late
Moody's Model
Moody’s Model
Orphic Practices
Orphic Theogony
Otherworld
period
Perpetua's Vision
Perpetua’s Vision
Polyc
Post-war
resurrection beliefs
Shamanistic Interpretation
soul immortality
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Spartan King Pausanias
spiritualism history
thanksgiving
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Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415141482
- Weight: 470g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop?
In this fascinating, learned, but highly readable book, Jan N. Bremmer - one of the foremost authorities on ancient religion - takes a fresh look at the major developments in the Western imagination of the afterlife, from the ancient Greeks to the modern near-death experience.
