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By Emily Vermeule

The traditional Greeks dedicated a good portion in their poetic and inventive power to exploring subject matters of demise. Vermeule examines the proof and fictions of Greek demise, together with burial and mourning, visions of the underworld, souls and ghosts, the price of heroic dying in conflict, the search for immortality, the associated powers of demise, sleep, and love, and extra.

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