Restless dead : encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece / Sarah Iles Johnston.
By: Johnston, Sarah Iles
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, 1999Description: xxi, 329 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520217071 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Ghosts -- Greece -- History | Greece -- ReligionDDC classification: 133.1/0938 LOC classification: BF1472.G8 | J64 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BF1472.G8 J64 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0182902372040 |
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Elpenor and others: narrative descriptions of the dead -- To honor and avert: rituals addressed to the dead -- Magical solutions to deadly problems: the origin and roles of the Goēs -- The unavenged: dealing with those who die violently -- Childless mothers and blighted virgins: female ghosts and their victims -- Hecate and the dying maiden: how the mistress of ghosts earned her title -- Purging the Polis: Erinyes, Eumenides, and Semnai Theai.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-307) and indexes.
