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A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity
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A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of death from 500BC-800AD. Drawing together contributions from leading scholars, this volume ranges over the medical, religious, social and theological histories of death. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus, covering the rituals and sites of death, death’s relationship with grief and representations and interpretations of death in art, literature, dance and music.
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Title: A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity
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A Cultural History of Death in Antiquity provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of death from 500BC-800AD.
Drawing together contributions from leading scholars, this volume ranges over the medical, religious, social and theological histories of death.
Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus, covering the rituals and sites of death, death’s relationship with grief and representations and interpretations of death in art, literature, dance and music.
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