Greek Ghosts
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Haunted Greece And Rome
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Author : Debbie Felton
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-07-22
Haunted Greece And Rome written by Debbie Felton and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories which arose from these beliefs. She then focuses on the longer stories of Plautus, Pliny, and Lucian, which concern haunted houses. Her analysis illuminates the oral and literary transmission and adaptation of folkloric motifs and the development of the ghost story as a literary form. In her concluding chapter, the author also traces the influence of ancient ghost stories on modern ghost story writers, a topic that will interest all readers and scholars of tales of hauntings.
Greek And Roman Ghost Stories
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Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-08-01
Greek And Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morley and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-01 with Fiction categories.
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Greek and Roman Ghost Stories" by Lacy Collison-Morley. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Greek Ghosts
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Author : Helen Frame
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2003-11
Greek Ghosts written by Helen Frame and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11 with Fiction categories.
Jennifer Haslett Vandergriff loses her husband Paul in a helicopter crash after five wonderful years of marriage. Subsequently she inherits Global International Travel, and discovers she is wealthy and pregnant. Jennifer silently deals with fears the child will be born with the mental illness her mother had. Because she also suffers from severe Postpartum Depression, her doctor suggests she return to Greece where she met Paul. Leaving Everett with his grandparents in Wendelstein, Germany, she travels to Leros in search of peace. En route Jennifer encounters an organization of international terrorists dominated by fanatically religious people and criminals seeking large profits, and learns about her husband's secret life. She meets two men - one she believes works for Interpol; the other one, an evil man, she suspects has the answers she seeks. Frighten by what she has stumbled into, she wonders if she will live long enough to achieve her goals . . .
Greek Roman Ghost Stories
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Author : Lacy 1875 Collison-Morley
language : en
Publisher: Wentworth Press
Release Date : 2016-08-26
Greek Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy 1875 Collison-Morley and has been published by Wentworth Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with History categories.
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Greek And Roman Ghost Stories
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Author : Lacy Collison-Morely
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2013-03-04
Greek And Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morely and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-04 with History categories.
The ancients strongly believed that those who died without proper burial could not cross the River Styx for at least one hundred years. According to Virgil, they were doomed to wander the banks until the years had elapsed. In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus, in the course of practicing a rite to safely enter Hades, spoke briefly with a ghostly warrior to whom he promised a fitting burial on his way home. Ghosts were tied to murders and violent deaths. Suetonius, in The Twelve Caesars describes how Nero arranged to have his mother killed, yet "often admitted that he was hounded by his mother's ghost..." Suetonius also records that Nero "set Persian magicians at work to conjure up the ghost and entreat its forgiveness." Persians and Egyptians had long reputations for magic, divination, and the ability to deal with the supernatural. Magic and even the assistance of gods and goddess as in the case of Odysseus were often vital. As Daniel Ogden writes, "contact with ghosts...could often be fatal to the living." In Jean-Claude Schmitt's detailed Ghosts in the Middle Ages, a group of ghosts carousing around a church altar suddenly attack and kill a priest who had come late at night to witness the phenomena. Ghosts and Demons Contrasted by the Early Church In the Gospel of Mark (5.1-20) Jesus arrived at Gerasenes and was confronted by a "man from the tombs with an unclean spirit." In the ancient world, it was a common belief that ghosts inhabited tombs. Many of these ancient tombs lay outside the communities of the living, necropoleis containing the sarcophagi of the deceased. The man confronting Jesus was said to have "had his dwelling among the tombs" and was infected with many demons. For many reasons, ghosts could be viewed as "unclean" spirits. The differentiation with the notion of "demon" as a separate evil spirit associated with the legions of Satan is a Christian one.
Haunted Greece And Rome
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Author : D. Felton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Haunted Greece And Rome written by D. Felton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Classical literature categories.
Magic Witchcraft And Ghosts In The Greek And Roman Worlds
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Author : Daniel Ogden
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2002
Magic Witchcraft And Ghosts In The Greek And Roman Worlds written by Daniel Ogden and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
In a culture where the supernatural possessed an immediacy now strange to us, magic was of great importance both in the literary mythic tradition and in ritual practice. In this book, Daniel Ogden presents 300 texts in new translations, along with brief but explicit commentaries. Authors include the well known (Sophocles, Herodotus, Plato, Aristotle, Virgil, Pliny) and the less familiar, and extend across the whole of Graeco-Roman antiquity.
Greek And Roman Ghost Stories
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Author : Lacy Collison-Morley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-11-10
Greek And Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacy Collison-Morley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-10 with categories.
Explore the haunted history of the Greco-Roman world in this illustrated edition of Lacy Collison-Morley's classic introduction to Greek and Roman ghost stories.
Greek And Roman Ghost Stories
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Author : Lacey Collison Morley
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2016-05-14
Greek And Roman Ghost Stories written by Lacey Collison Morley and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-14 with categories.
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The Ghosts Of Plaka Beach
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Author : Stylianos Perrakis
language : en
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Release Date : 2006
The Ghosts Of Plaka Beach written by Stylianos Perrakis and has been published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
Sixty years after the end of World War II Stylianos (Stelios) Perrakis, Greek-born finance professor who has lived most of his life in Canada, went back to Greece to investigate a traumatic event in his family's history that colored his childhood years. The circumstances surrounding the kidnapping and murder of his maternal uncle by a Communist death squad in May 1944, in the Argolida region of the Greek Peloponnese, were cloaked in mystery, never discussed openly by family members. Using trial transcripts, interviews with survivors and with people involved in his uncle's kidnapping, and such primary materials as unpublished diaries and family correspondence, Perrakis managed to document the full sequence of events that led up to this family tragedy. He then widened his focus to draw out the implications of this particular event, painting an intimate picture of a prosperous middle-class provincial world faced with extraordinary challenges that it was unable to overcome.