Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston

Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece

Sarah Iles Johnston

352 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to...

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