Death in the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.)

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Antigone Samellas evaluates to what extent Christianity affected the prevalent attitudes towards death and the current functions of the funerary and commemorative rituals.
Antigone Samellas examines the modes of reception of Jesus' message of salvation. She explores the Greek and Jewish influence on Christian eschatology and traces the Hellenistic roots of Christian consolation philosophy. The author examines Christianity as a 'total therapy of grief' and highlights the differences that existed between the religious cures and the Hellenistic philosophical therapies. To gain a better understanding of the process of conversion to the new faith Antigone Samellas also investigates which aspects of Christianity were appealing and which repugnant in the eyes of pagans and Jews. Finally, she attempts to convey something of the wisdom of the East, in all its cultural and religious nuances, to the modern reader.

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Antigone Samellas
Born 1966; 1987 B.A. Sociology, Connecticut College; 1989 Master of Science Sociology, London School of Economics; 1993 M.A. History, Yale; 1999 Ph.D. History, Yale; since 1999 Scholar in the field of European History at the Greek Open University in Athens.

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