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200 10$aRestless Dead$b[electronic resource] $eEncounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2013
215   $a1 online resource (355 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-520-28018-0 
327   $aCover; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Frequently Used Terms; Abbreviations; PART I. A SHORT HISTORY OF THE DEAD IN ANCIENT GREECE; 1. Elpenor and Others: Narrative Descriptions of the Dead; 2. To Honor and Avert: Rituals Addressed to the Dead; 3. Magical Solutions to Deadly Problems: The Origin and Roles of the Goe?s; PART II. RESTLESS DEAD; 4. The Unavenged: Dealing with Those Who Die Violently; 5. Childless Mothers and Blighted Virgins: Female Ghosts and Their Victims; PART III. DIVINITIES AND THE DEAD; 6. Hecate and the Dying Maiden: How the Mistress of Ghosts Earned Her Title
327   $a7. Purging the Polis: Erinyes, Eumenides, and Semnai TheaiBibliography; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; Index Locorum; Texts; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; S; T; V; X; Z; Inscriptions
330   $aDuring 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 increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In Restless Dead, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the way in which the society of the dead reflected that of the living, expressing and defusing its tensions, reiterating its values and eventually becoming a source of 
606   $aGhosts -- Greece -- History
606   $aGreece -- Religion
606   $aSupernatural
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615  4$aGreece -- Religion.
615  4$aSupernatural.
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