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Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries - Brossura

Griffith, R. Drew

 
9780761842989: Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries
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ISBN 10: 0761842985 ISBN 13: 9780761842989
Casa editrice: University Press Of America, 2008

Sinossi

Homer presents a world-view in which death represents the end of consciousness and total annihilation of personhood. Yet in Odyssey, Book Four, he contradicts this by saying that one man at least will not die, but will be transported to Elysium, where he will have a blessed existence forever. In Mummy Wheat R. Drew Griffith argues that this shocking violation of Homer's normal world-view comes from Egypt, where more than anywhere else in the ancient world people firmly believed in life after death. This Egyptian view entered Homer deeply enough that traces of it can be found in many facets of his poetic language. Finally, Griffith argues, the Elysium idea did not die with Homer, but became enshrined in one of the most influential and long-lived religious traditions of Greece: the mysteries of Demeter at Eleusis outside of Athens.

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R. Drew Griffith is Professor of Classics at Queen's University at Kingston, Canada.

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Editore
University Press Of America
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0761842985
ISBN 13 
9780761842989
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
272
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