Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries Book

Homer presents a world-view in which death represents the end of consciousness and total annihilation of personhood. Yet in Odyssey, Book Four, he contradicts this by saying that one man at least will not die, but will be transported to Elysium, where he will have a blessed existence forever. In Mummy Wheat R. Drew Griffith argues that this shocking violation of Homer's normal world-view comes from Egypt, where more than anywhere else in the ancient world people firmly believed in life after death.Read More

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  • 0761842985
  • 9780761842989
  • R.Drew Griffith
  • 18 September 2008
  • University Press of America
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
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