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Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries

Autor R. Drew Griffith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 sep 2008
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. This Egyptian view entered Homer deeply enough that traces of it can be found in many facets of his poetic language. Finally, Griffith argues, the Elysium idea did not die with Homer, but became enshrined in one of the most influential and long-lived religious traditions of Greece: the mysteries of Demeter at Eleusis outside of Athens.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761842989
ISBN-10: 0761842985
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 154 x 231 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

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Since the 1990s consideration of Egyptian etymologies has opened up in the West, and such younger classicists as Garth Alford, Erwin Cook, and R. Drew Griffith have begun to study striking similarities between Egyptian and Homeric imagery and vocabulary.
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