Mummy Wheat: Egyptian Influence on the Homeric View of the Afterlife and the Eleusinian Mysteries

by R. Drew Griffith

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761842985
• ISBN13: 9780761842989
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"