The Greek way of death
Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert Garland seeks to show what the ordinary Greek felt about death and the dead. The Second Edition features a substantial new prefatory essay in...
Print Book, English, c2001
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., c2001
History
xxvi, 198 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
9780801487460, 0801487463
1166903915
1. The Power and Status of the Dead
2. Dying
3. The Funeral
4. Between Worlds
5. Life in Hades
6. The Special Dead
7. Visiting the Tomb
Chronology of Greek Burial
Previous ed.: 1985
Includes index