Death Imagined
Death is common and inescapable – everyone will agree. Yet, how one imagines the experience of dying and the beyond is very individual. Ancient cultures were not indifferent to this grim and painful moment and ‘the unknown beyond’. Needless to say, representations of the final moments and transition...
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Liverpool University Press
2025
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| description | Death is common and inescapable – everyone will agree. Yet, how one imagines the experience of dying and the beyond is very individual. Ancient cultures were not indifferent to this grim and painful moment and ‘the unknown beyond’. Needless to say, representations of the final moments and transition to the world of the dead filled many pages and paintings of the past. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, given that no one comes back to tell the story, the world of the after-death is stained by a perception of the process of dying and a negative reflection of the world of the living. The present book explores the ideas regarding death, dying, and the world beyond death of those who came long before us, living in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant, ancient Greece, Etruria, Rome, and even the Incan world. Even though separated by centuries, the reader will be surprised that the ancient experience of ‘the unknown’ does not seem unfamiliar, but still has much to offer in terms of reflection on ‘when we are not’. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1591132025-05-07T07:00:49Z Death Imagined Sekita, Karolina Southwood, Katherine E. Death;Underworld;Imagination;Journey to the World of the Dead;Tomb;Etruscan;Ancient Egypt;Mesopotamia;Rome;Ancient Greece Death is common and inescapable – everyone will agree. Yet, how one imagines the experience of dying and the beyond is very individual. Ancient cultures were not indifferent to this grim and painful moment and ‘the unknown beyond’. Needless to say, representations of the final moments and transition to the world of the dead filled many pages and paintings of the past. Unsurprisingly, perhaps, given that no one comes back to tell the story, the world of the after-death is stained by a perception of the process of dying and a negative reflection of the world of the living. The present book explores the ideas regarding death, dying, and the world beyond death of those who came long before us, living in Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant, ancient Greece, Etruria, Rome, and even the Incan world. Even though separated by centuries, the reader will be surprised that the ancient experience of ‘the unknown’ does not seem unfamiliar, but still has much to offer in terms of reflection on ‘when we are not’. 2025-05-07T07:00:48Z 2025-05-07T07:00:48Z 2025-05-06T14:14:29Z 2025 book https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101338 9781802077582 9781836246138 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159113 eng open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101338/1/Sekita_%209781835536940_web.pdf Liverpool University Press aa5f0a3b-b4a0-4754-9840-b645b364c5ef fd53808a-cdec-480e-bf85-f52973f603b7 de38450a-8d0f-46ab-9ea7-4cfa104f59c3 9781802077582 9781836246138 304 University of Oxford Oxford University 10.13039/501100000769 open access |
| spellingShingle | Death;Underworld;Imagination;Journey to the World of the Dead;Tomb;Etruscan;Ancient Egypt;Mesopotamia;Rome;Ancient Greece Death Imagined |
| title | Death Imagined |
| title_full | Death Imagined |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Death Imagined |
| title_short | Death Imagined |
| title_sort | death imagined |
| topic | Death;Underworld;Imagination;Journey to the World of the Dead;Tomb;Etruscan;Ancient Egypt;Mesopotamia;Rome;Ancient Greece |
| topic_facet | Death;Underworld;Imagination;Journey to the World of the Dead;Tomb;Etruscan;Ancient Egypt;Mesopotamia;Rome;Ancient Greece |
| url | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101338 |