{"product_id":"aspects-of-death-and-the-afterlife-in-greek-literature-9781789621495","title":"Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate of man after his\/her allotted time has come to an end has a central position in poetry, philosophy and religion, often leading to questions and answers as to how one can best live one’s life, and how can one deal with the burden of mortality that is inherent in every human being. The Greeks devoted a considerable amount of their literary production in an attempt to answer these questions through a variety of different media, whereas similar concerns appear to have been at the core of the ancient world in general. This volume represents the first to examine the influences, intersections, and developments of understandings of death and the afterlife between poetic, religious, and philosophical traditions in ancient Greece in one resource. Greek thinking on death and the afterlife was neither uniform, simple, nor static, and by offering an examination of these matters in a properly interdisciplinary context this collection of papers aims to demonstrate the full richness,  complexity, and flexibility of these ideas in the ancient Greek world, and illuminate how freely writers from various genres drew inspiration from each other’s thinking concerning eschatological matters. \u003cbr\u003e Contributors: Alberto Benarbé; Rick Benitez; Nicolo Benzi; Chiara Blanco; Radcliffe Edmonds; George Alexander Gazis; Anthony Hooper; Vaios Liapis; Alex Long; Ioannis Ziogas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The overarching theme of the volume is the great variety, malleability, conflation, and manipulation of the traditional views of the afterlife. This is an important point, and the essays collectively make it. They are, to echo the title of Edmonds’ opening essay, “good to think with.\"'\u003cbr\u003eMichael Halleran, \u003ci\u003eBryn Mawr Classical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e1. A Path Neither Simple Nor Single: The Afterlife as Good to Think with.\u003cbr\u003eRadcliffe Edmonds\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2. The Somatics of the Greek Dead\u003cbr\u003eVaios Liapis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3. Life and Death of the Greek Heroine in Odyssey 11 and the Hesiodic \u003ci\u003eCatalogue of Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIoannis Ziogas\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4. What is your lot? Lyric pessimism and Pindar’s afterlife\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Alexander Gazis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5. In quest for authority: Parmenides and the tradition of \u003ci\u003ekatabasis\u003c\/i\u003e narratives\u003cbr\u003eNicolo Benzi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6. Death as dehumanization in Sophocles’ \u003ci\u003ePhiloctetes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChiara Blanco\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7. Socrates' Conception of the Underworld\u003cbr\u003eRick Benitez\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8. Judges in Hades from Homer to Plato\u003cbr\u003eAlberto Benarbé\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9. Renovating the House of Hades: Cult Extensions and Socratic Reconstructions\u003cbr\u003eAnthony Hooper\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10. Stoic agnosticisms about death\u003cbr\u003eAlex Long\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042587803991,"sku":"9781789621495","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789621495.jpg?v=1750954758","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/aspects-of-death-and-the-afterlife-in-greek-literature-9781789621495","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}