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personified figure is made recognizable by something other than an inscription (Stafford 2000:147–71; cf. Stafford 2005d). Late ...
spread from end to end of the Greek world during the hellenistic period, the goddess being invoked occasionally in a private con ...
reference to the sanctuary’s refurbishment in a contemporary inscription of 335/4 BC (IGii^2 333), and a statue of Good Fortune ...
Conclusion The personifications which appear throughout Greek art and literature take on new life when we consider the place tha ...
here of general issues – definitions, problems of evidence, ancient analysis of the phenomenon, the question of personifications ...
CHAPTER FIVE The Dead D. Felton What happens to us when we die? Our bodies decay, but is there a spirit, a soul, an essence of o ...
despite the lack of a universal doctrine about the nature of the soul, actual funeral and mourning customs in ancient Greece wer ...
back at the family home (Burkert 1985:193). The funeral feast usually involved animal sacrifices. This sequence of ceremonies ha ...
legendary Athenian lawmaker Solon may have converted it into a national celebration (Parke 1977:53). The Genesia thus may have b ...
ghost of Erigone, a legendary maiden who hanged herself after the death of her father Icarius, to whom Dionysus had given the gi ...
the Greeks seemed reluctant to call upon Hades by name and often used a euphem- ism, Plouton, or, ‘‘The Rich One,’’ probably bec ...
Erinyes did the same to Alcmeon for killing his mother, Eriphyle (Apollodorus, Library3.7.5). Ancient Greek conceptions of Hades ...
of Aeacus brought the number of judges to three (Apology41a;Gorgias523e–524a). All were famous during their lives for being lawg ...
reflected, at least in part, the Greek belief that a person was responsible for his (or her) behavior in this life, and that imm ...
when the friends sat down on the stone chairs, they found that they couldn’t get up again: they were bound fast. Theseus escaped ...
The oracle of the dead at Acheron in Thesprotia was actually one of four main oracles of the dead in antiquity, the other three ...
a reply that hinted at his impending death (Cimon6.4–6). Pausanias was soon after starved to death by the Spartans for allegedly ...
the ghost vanishes. When the townspeople dig up the courtyard on Athenodorus’ advice, they find a skeleton entwined with chains. ...
It is clear from accounts in myth and folklore that in Greek religion the single most important factor connected to the appearan ...
CHAPTER SIX Heroes and Hero-Cults Gunnel Ekroth What Is a Hero? Name a hero and Achilles, Agamemnon, and Heracles immediately sp ...
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