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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.
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.
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 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.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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 : 2016-05-16
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 2016-05-16 with 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.
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.
Ghosts And Spirits In The Ancient World
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Author : Eric John Dingwall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1930
Ghosts And Spirits In The Ancient World written by Eric John Dingwall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1930 with Spiritualism categories.
Making Time For Greek And Roman Literature
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Author : Kate Gilhuly
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-12-01
Making Time For Greek And Roman Literature written by Kate Gilhuly and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The essays in this collection explore various various models of representing temporality in ancient Greek and Roman literature to elucidate how structures of time communicate meaning, as well as the way that the cultural impact of measured time is reflected in ancient texts. This collection serves as a meditation on the different ways that cosmological and experiential time are construed, measured, and manipulated in Greek and Latin literature. It explores both the kinds of time deemed worthy of measurement, as well as time that escapes notice. Likewise, it interrogates how linear time and its representation become politicized and leveraged in the service of emerging and dominant power structures. These essays showcase various contemporary theoretical approaches to temporality in order to build bridges and expose chasms between ancient and modern ideologies of time. Some of the areas explored include the philosophical and social implications of time that is not measured, the insights and limitations provided by queer theory for an investigation of the way sex and gender relate to time, the relationship of time to power, the extent to which temporal discourses intersect with spatial constructs, and finally an exploration of experiences that exceed the boundaries of time. Making Time for Greek and Roman Literature is of interest to scholars of time and temporality in the ancient world, as well as those working on time and temporality in English literature, comparative literature, history, sociology, and gender and sexuality. It is also suitable for those working on Greek and Roman literature and culture more broadly.