Съдържание: "Reading" Greek death :

Книга

Основен автор:	Sourvinou-Inwood, Christiane.
Формат:	Книга
Език:	English
Публикувано:	Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1996.
Предмети:	Death > Social aspects > Historiography. > Greece Death in art. Death in literature. Funeral rites and ceremonies > Historiography. > Greece Funeral rites and ceremonies in literature. Greek literature > History and criticism. Literature and society > Historiography. > Greece Greece > Social life and customs.

Съдържание:

I. Reading the Greek Discourse of Death. Reading Ancient Texts
II. Afterlife in the Homeric Poems: Text and Belief. i. Text and Belief. ii. Death and the World of the Dead in Homer. iii. Odyssey 24: The Continuation
iv. Conclusions: Homeric Eschatologies
III. Signs of the Dead: The Grave Monument in Homer and the Archaic Age. i. The Grave Monument in Homer. ii. The Grave Monument in the Archaic Age
IV. Coping with Death: Shifting Attitudes in a Changing World
V. Charon, Hermes, and the Journey of Death. i. Charon and the Journey to Hades in the Fifth Century. ii. Images of Charon on White-Ground Lekythoi: Reassurance and 'Propitiation'. iii. Shifting Attitudes and Eschatological Mythopoeia: The Emergence of Charon and Hermes Chthonios. iv. Other Views on Charon: A Critique
VI. Reading (Death) Otherwise: The Case Study of an Archaic Epigram. i. The First and Second Reading Narratives. ii. The Third Reading Narrative: Reading through Archaic Eyes.