Contents

  1. List of figures
  2. List of contributors
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. PART 1
    The afterlife at Greek funerary sites
    1. 1 Visualizing the afterlife in Classical Athens: Interactions between the living and the dead on white-ground lêkythoi
    2. 2 Phrasikleia: Playing with signs
  6. PART 2
    The afterlife at Roman and Etruscan funerary sites
    1. 3 ‘Break on through to the other side’: The Etruscan Netherworld and its demons
    2. 4 Guide of souls? Mercurius Psychopompos in Roman Dalmatia
    3. 5 Funerary dining scenes in Roman tombs: Ensuring happiness in the afterlife
  7. PART 3
    The afterlife in literature
    1. 6 Cosmology, psychopomps, and afterlife in Homer's Odyssey
    2. 7 Daphnis' tomb: Space for immortality in Virgil's 5th Eclogue
    3. 8 Reality and unreality: Literature and folklore in Propertius 4.7
  8. PART 4
    The afterlife in Late Antique tradition
    1. 9 A ritual of the afterlife or the afterlife of a ritual: Maschalismos in Ancient Greece and beyond
    2. 10 Servius on Virgil's underworld in Late Antiquity
  9. Index