R. Drew Griffith

Mummy Wheat

Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9780761842989
• ISBN-10: 0761842985
• Artikelnr.: 25691590

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Brought Forth from the Land of Egypt
Chapter 2 Rowing to Elysium: Menelaus' Afterlife and Egyptian Religion
Chapter 3 The Voice of the Dead In the Odyssey and Egyptian Funerary Texts
Chapter 4 The Origin of Memnon
Chapter 5 Local Colour: The Egyptian Basis for some Homeric Descriptions
Chapter 6 Mechanism of Contact
Chapter 7 The Egyptian Background to the Eleusinian Mysteries
Chapter 8 Near Death Experience and the Eleusinian Mysteries: Resuscitation
as Psychotherapy
Chapter 9 Afterward