Death Imagined : Ancient Perceptions of Death and Dying
An Open Access edition is available on the Liverpool University Press website, thanks to funding from St John's College, Oxford, through a ‘Meeting of Minds'grant. Death is common and inescapable – everyone will agree. Yet, how one imagines the experience of dying and the beyond is very individual....
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Liverpool University Press
2025
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