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Restless dead encounters between the living and the dead in ancient Greece /
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
1999.
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| Physical Description: |
xxi, 329 pages ; 24 cm. |
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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 Goēs
- 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.