- 470 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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The Athenians and Their Graves (1000–300 BC)
About this book
This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, images and inscriptions shows, from an anthropological perspective, the Athenian attitude towards death in its fundamental difference to Christian occidental views.
The book, which was originally published in German, is revised.
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Yes, you can access The Athenians and Their Graves (1000–300 BC) by Elena Walter-Karydi in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & History of Ancient Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Color plates
- Introduction
- I. Graves without a cemetery
- II. The due of the dead: geras thanonton and the grave markers of the Geometric period (1000–700 BC). The “familiar death.”
- III. The deceased appears as a person: grave sculptures of the Archaic period (circa 650–490 BC)
- IV. Discovering the self and the other: grave markers of the Classical period (circa 430–300 BC).
- Abbreviations
- Bibliography of works cited
- References to the illustrations
- Notes
- Indices