Homer presents a world-view in which death represents the end of consciousness and total annihilation of personhood. Yet in Odyssey, Book Four, he contradicts this by saying that one man at least will not die, but will be transported to Elysium, where he will have a blessed existence forever. In Mummy Wheat R. Drew Griffith argues that this shocking violation of Homer's normal world-view comes from Egypt, where more than anywhere else in the ancient world people firmly believed in life after death.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0761842985
ISBN13:9780761842989
Release Date:September 2008
Publisher:Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
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