Review of "K. Waldner, R. Gordon and W. Spickermann (eds.), Burial Rituals, Ideas of Afterlife, and The Individual in the Hellenistic World and the Roman Empire, Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge 57, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2016"

Abstrakt

The reviewed book are the proceedings of a 2012 conference at Erfurt University that focused on the varied approaches to death, burial and the afterlife both by the individual as well as (Christian, Jewish, Pagan) communities throughout the Mediterranean world in Hellenistic and Roman times.

Klíčová slova

• Review
• Afterlife
• Burial customs
• Cult of the Dead
• Hellenistic and Roman periods