Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece

2000 ◽  
Vol 93 (5) ◽  
pp. 546
Author(s):  
André Lardinois ◽  
Sarah Iles Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Dead

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Bridget Martin
Keyword(s):  
Greek Tragedy ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
The World ◽  
The Dead

The introduction outlines current scholarship in the field of eschatology in ancient Greece, and it highlights the importance of this book in offering a unique and concentrated study on the dead in fifth-century Greek tragedy. This study extends far beyond the manifest stage-dead by considering, for example, the possible physical and metaphysical effects of exposure and mutilation on the dead in the Underworld, and the different roles the dead play in enacting revenge in the world of the living. The introduction presents the parameters within which the dead are examined in this book, whereby the arguments and conclusions relate specifically to the dead in tragedy and should not and cannot be taken as contemporary fifth-century “beliefs”, although there is inevitable overlap.

scholarly journals Los trabajos femeninos en el "oikos" de la Grecia Clásica: la madre, la cuidadora, la administradora

2009 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Verónica Fernández García
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Sick People ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Las Mujeres

<p>La vida de las mujeres en la Grecia Clásica tenía lugar fundamentalmente en el seno del oikos, la casa griega. Y, especialmente, en la zona reservada a ellas, el gineceo. A<br />menudo vivían allí las abuelas, las madres, las nietas,... junto con las sirvientas, las esclavas y los niños pequeños. En estas habitaciones hacían sus trabajos: cuidar de los hijos, de los bebés, hasta que cumplían siete años, cuidaban a los enfermos, asistían a los muertos, tejían e hilaban y administraban la casa y a los trabajadores domésticos.<br />Así pasaban todo el tiempo, con un trabajo que dependía de los hombres, pero que era mucho más importante de lo que estos llegaron a conocer nunca.</p><p>Women’s life in Ancient Greece mainly took place within oikos, the greek house, and especially in the area reserved to them, the gynaeceum. Grandmothers, mothers and<br />granddaughters often lived there,... along with servants, slaves and little children. In these rooms they carried out their work: looking after children, babies, until the age of<br />seven, caring the sick people, attending the dead people, weaving and spinning and managing the house and houseworkers. Thus they spent all the time fulfilling jobs that depended on men, but which were much more important than greek men ever thought</p>

scholarly journals De orfiske mudderbade: Esoteriske renhedsforestillinger i oldtidens Grækenland

2019 ◽  
pp. 45-62
Author(s):  
Lars Albinus
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
English Abstract ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Religious Reform ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Axial Age ◽  
Initiation Ritual ◽  
The Dead

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The symbolic distinction between purity and pollution was prevalent in Ancient Greece, not least among the Orphic. As a religious reform-movement of the Axial Age they authored a discourse which was polemically directed against the dominant Homeric tradition. This shows, for instance, in their eschatological reconception of the relationships between humans and gods, life and death. As part of an initiation-ritual, they offered purifications, including self-defilement with blood and mud, with the purpose of releasing the initiate from the cycle of births (reincarnation). Allegedly, the initiation entailed a ritual staging of the realm of the dead – an imitatio mortis – in which the uninitiated were doomed to a hapless fate whereas the initiated were introduced to a divine and carefree afterlife. DANSK RESUMÉ: Den symbolske distinktion mellem renhed og urenhed spillede en afgørende rolle i det antikke Hellas, ikke mindst for orfikerne. De fremstår i den forbindelse som en typisk aksetidsbevægelse, der forholder sig polemisk til den herskende tradition. Således tilskrev de forholdet mellem mennesker og guder, liv og død, en eskatologisk betydning, der stod i modsætning til det homeriske univers. De indførte også renselsesriter med blod og mudder som del af et initiationsritual, hvis formål var at guddommeliggøre initianden gennem en frigørelse fra fødslernes kredsløb. Her tyder alt på, at ritualet bestod en rituel iscenesættelse af dødsriget – imitatio mortis – der skelnede mellem uindviede, som gik en trøstesløs skæbne i møde, og indviede, som kunne se frem til et sorgløst efterliv.

Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece

Phoenix ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 53 (3/4) ◽  
pp. 339
Author(s):  
Hugh Parry ◽  
Sarah Iles Johnston
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Greece ◽  
The Dead
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