WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE DEAD
ROBERT GARLAND
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A lively story of death, What to Expect When Youre Dead explores the fascinating death-related beliefs and practices of a wide range of ancient cultures and traditionsMesopotamian, Egyptian, Hindu, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, Early Christian, and Islamic. By drawing on the latest scholarship on ancient archaeology, art, literature, and funerary inscriptions, Robert Garland invites readers to put themselves in the sandals of ancient peoples and to imagine their mental state moment by moment as they soughtin ways that turn out to be remarkably similar to oursto assist the dead on their journey to the next world and to understand lifes greatest mystery.
| ISBN |
9780691266176
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| GÉNERO |
Historia
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| IDIOMA |
Ingles
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| EDITORIAL |
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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| AÑO DE EDICIÓN |
2026
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