Saturday, April 8, 2017

Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean

Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean

Tappenden, Frederick. S., and Carly Daniel-Hughes, eds. 2017. Coming Back to Life: The Permeability of Past and Present, Mortality and Immortality, Death and Life in the Ancient Mediterranean. Editorial assistance from Bradley N. Rice. Montreal, QC: McGill University Library. 
http://comingbacktolife.mcgill.ca/issue/view/2017/showToc
The lines between death and life were neither fixed nor finite to the peoples of the ancient Mediterranean. For most, death was a passageway into a new and uncertain existence. The dead were not so much extinguished as understood to be elsewhere, and many perceived the deceased to continue to exercise agency among the living. Even for those more skeptical of an afterlife, notions of coming back to life provided frameworks in which to conceptualize the on-going social, political, and cultural influence of the past. This collection of essays examines how notions of coming back to life shape practices and ideals throughout the ancient Mediterranean. All contributors focus on the common theme of coming back to life as a discursive and descriptive space in which antique peoples construct, maintain, and negotiate the porous boundaries between past and present, mortality and immortality, death and life.

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Front Matter

 
Gregory Nagy
xi-xiii
Frederick S. Tappenden, Carly Daniel-Hughes
xv-xxiii
 
xxv-xxxv
 
xxxvii-xlii

Introduction

Frederick S. Tappenden, Carly Daniel-Hughes
1-15
Sarah Iles Johnston
17-36

Section I: Memory, Mourning, and Returning to Life

Valerie M. Hope
39-70
Angela Standhartinger
71-101
Vita Daphna Arbel
103-126

Section II: The Material and Conceptual Porosity of Death

Roger Beck
129-151
Troels Engberg-Pedersen
153-179
Frederick S. Tappenden
181-213
Hugo Lundhaug
215-236

Section III: Identity Formation and the Return from Death

Carly Daniel-Hughes
239-265
David L. Eastman
267-286
Stéphanie Machabée
287-308
Eliza Rosenberg
309-341

Section IV: Coming back to Life in Myth and Narrative

Katharina Waldner
345-374
Jeffrey A. Keiser
375-406
Frances Flannery
407-434
Meredith Warren
435-455

Section V: Supplement

Frederick S. Tappenden, Bradley N. Rice
459-473
 
475

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