The Greek Way of Death by Robert Garland

The Greek Way of Death

Robert Garland

224 pages first pub 1985 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative medium-paced

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Surveying funerary rites and attitudes toward death from the time of Homer to the fourth century B.C., Robert Garland seeks to show what the ordinary Greek felt about death and the dead. The Second Edition features a substantial new prefatory essa...

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