Death Imagined: Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying

by: Sekita, K. Southwood, K.E.

 
Death imagined : ancient perceptions of death and dying

Authors:Karolina Sekita (Editor), Katherine E. Southwood (Editor)

Summary:A book about perception and imagination of death, dying and the ?beyond? in ancient cultures from Mesopotamia and Egypt to Rome and even the Incas. The collected studies explore apotropaic or celebratory rituals of death, the imagined processes of dying, and the imagination of the dead in the minds of the living and mourning relatives.

Series:
Liverpool studies in ancient history

x, 294 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.

Contents:
Preface Katherine E. Southwood and Karolina Sekita Introduction Karolina Sekita and Katherine E. Southwood I. Processing Death Section Introduction, Katherine E. Southwood and Karolina Sekita Death and Mourning in Euripides? Alcestis, Richard Hunter The Mesopotamians? Perception of Death in Metaphor, Dina Katz The Perception of the Human Body in the Ancient Egyptian Funerary Literature and the Book of the Dead, Rita Lucarelli Incan Death as Challenge – Conceptualisations of the Mysterious Way from kay pacha to hurin pacha, Lidia Ożarowska II. Perceiving Death Through Ritual and Burial Section Introduction, Katherine E. Southwood and Karolina Sekita A Disregard of Decency: Concepts and Metaphors of “Waste” and “Binding” Behind Some Non-Normative Burial Rituals in Ancient Greece and Modern Greek Folklore, Dimitrios Bosnakis The Bitter Taste of Death: Mourning for the Young in Ancient Rome, Valerie M. Hope Rethinking Depictions of Altars on Etruscan Mythological Sarcophagi, Valeria Riedemann Lorca Memory, Monumentality, and the Tomb of the Royal Steward, Matthew J. Suriano III. The Beyond Section Introduction, Katherine E. Southwood and Karolina Sekita Where Does the Soul Go? Some Thoughts on Etruscan Afterlife, Cornelia Weber-Lehmann Grief is Displayed as a Mix Between Festival and Rite: The Roman Emperor and the Experience of Death, Panayiotis Christoforou Imagining the Afterlife in the Psalms: The Episode of Mitchell Dahood and His Commentary, Christopher B. Hays Epilogue Jan N. Bremmer

Death Imagined: Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying

by: Sekita, K. Southwood, K.E.

• ISBN-13: 9781802077582 / 978-1-80207-758-2
• ISBN-03: 1802077588 / 1-80207-758-8
• Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2025