| Description |
xxi, 329 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-307) and indexes. |
| Contents |
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 Goes -- The unavenged: dealing with those who die violently -- Childless mothers and blighted virgins: female ghosts an their victims -- Hecate and the dying maiden: how the mistress of ghosts earned her title -- Purging the Polis: Erinyes, Eumenides, and Semnai Theai. |
| Subject |
Ghosts -- Greece -- History.
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Greece -- Religion.
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| ISBN |
0520217071 (alk. paper) |
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9780520217072 (alk. paper) |
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