What was the origin of Charon, the ferryman of the dead? Or Hades and the Elysian Fields? This is an in-depth study of the beliefs, attitudes and rituals surrounding death in ancient Greece. Drawing on all kinds of evidence - from literary texts to images on art - the book also discusses the problems of "reading" this material without the intrusion of our own culturally-determined beliefs.
- ISBN10 019814976X
- ISBN13 9780198149767
- Publish Date January 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 June 1996
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 502
- Language English