What to Do When You're Dead: Myths and Rituals of the Afterlife from Osiris to Christ
19.99 €
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What to Do When You're Dead: Myths and Rituals of the Afterlife from Osiris to Christ
19.99 €
Death is life's only inevitability, yet almost no one knows what to expect from it. In his book, "What to Do When You're Dead? Myths and Rituals of the Afterlife from Osiris to Christ," classical scholar Robert Garland offers readers a lively intellectual journey through millennia of human understanding of death and the afterlife.
From the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Egyptian Book of the Dead to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid, the author leads us through the myths, rituals, fears, and hopes of ancient civilizations, revealing both striking parallels and profound differences in how humanity has attempted to come to terms with existence's greatest mystery.
Robert Garland reconstructs death as a process, not an instantaneous act, drawing on archaeological data, historical sources, and modern science. His book is an intellectual, ironic dialogue with the past, inviting the reader to look at death not as a taboo, but as a mirror in which life itself is reflected, including values, fears, and the desire for meaning.
From the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh and the Egyptian Book of the Dead to Homer's Iliad and Odyssey and Virgil's Aeneid, the author leads us through the myths, rituals, fears, and hopes of ancient civilizations, revealing both striking parallels and profound differences in how humanity has attempted to come to terms with existence's greatest mystery.
Robert Garland reconstructs death as a process, not an instantaneous act, drawing on archaeological data, historical sources, and modern science. His book is an intellectual, ironic dialogue with the past, inviting the reader to look at death not as a taboo, but as a mirror in which life itself is reflected, including values, fears, and the desire for meaning.
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