Hidden futures : death and immortality in ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic world /
Edd. J. M. Bremmer, Th. P.J. van den Hout, R. Peters.
- 253 páginas : ilustraciones láms. ; 24 centímetros.
Bibliografía al final de cada artículo.
"Going out into the day". Ancient egyptian beliefs and practiques concerning death and inmortality -- Death as a privilege. The hittite royal funerary ritual -- Death and the after-life in the hebrew bible of ancient Israel -- The soul, death and the afterlife in early and classical Greece -- Death and inmortality in some greek poems -- Hector's death and Augustan politics -- "Death, te elusive thief": the classical arabic elegy -- Hebrew andalusian elegies and the arabic literary tradition -- Death and inmortality in greek philosophy. From presocratics to the Hellenistic Era -- Resurrection, revelation and reason. Husayn Al-Jisir (D,1909) and islamic eschatology -- Iron age cinerary urns from latium in the shape of a Hut: indicators of status?.
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Inmortalidad--Historia. Muerte en la literatura. Muerte--Historia. Region mediterránea--Civilización.