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Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries
R. Drew Griffith
Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries
R. Drew Griffith
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 ex...
272 pages, Illustrations, maps
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | September 18, 2008 |
ISBN13 | 9780761842989 |
Publishers | University Press of America |
Pages | 272 |
Dimensions | 154 × 231 × 20 mm · 408 g |
Language | English |