Coming back to life : the permeability of past and present, mortality and immortality, death and life in the ancient Mediterranean /
The lines between death and life were neither fixed nor finite to the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. For most, death was a passageway into a new and uncertain existence, and many perceived the deceased to continue to exercise agency among the living. Even for those more skeptical of an afterl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , , |
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Formato: | Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal, QC :
McGill University Library and Archives,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | The lines between death and life were neither fixed nor finite to the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. For most, death was a passageway into a new and uncertain existence, and many perceived the deceased to continue to exercise agency among the living. Even for those more skeptical of an afterlife, notions of. |
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Notas: | Papers based on the conference Coming Back to Life: Performance, Memory, and Cognition in the Ancient Mediterranean, held at McGill University and Concordia University, from May 8 to 11, 2014. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781770962224 1770962220 |