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Restless Dead : Encounters Between The Living And The Dead In Ancient Greece
Paperback Edition: 1/2013
Topics of focus include the origin of the goes (the ritual practitioner who made interaction with the dead his specialty), the threat to the living presented by the ghosts of those who died dishonorably or prematurely, the development of Hecate into a mistress of ghosts and its connection to female rites of transition, and the complex nature of the Erinyes. Restless Dead culminates with a new reading of Aeschylus' Oresteia that emphasises how Athenian myth and cult manipulated ideas about the dead to serve political and social ends.
Pages : 352
Publisher : University of California Press
Publication date : 2013-09
Subjects: Non-fiction, Humanities, Anthropology/archaeology, Religion & Beliefs, Classical Greek & Roman Archaeology, Ancient Greek Religion & Mythology