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  1. The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife.Jan N. Bremmer - 2001 - Routledge.
    Belief in the afterlife is still very much alive in Western civilisation, even though the truth of its existence is no longer universally accepted. Surprisingly, however, heaven, hell and the immortal soul were all ideas which arrived relatively late in the ancient world. Originally Greece and Israel - the cultures that gave us Christianity - had only the vaguest ideas of an afterlife. So where did these concepts come from and why did they develop? In this fascinating, learned, but highly (...)
     
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    A Homeric Goat Island ( OD. 9.116–41).Jan N. Bremmer - 1986 - Classical Quarterly 36 (01):256-.
    Recently, Jenny Strauss Clay has put forward the suggestion that the ‘goat island’ on which Odysseus lands before crossing over to the Cyclopes is ‘none other than Hyperia, the former home of the Phaeacians from which they emigrated to Scheria under the leadership of Nausithoos on account of the depredations of the Cyclopes.’ She arrives at this suggestion by combining the former proximity of the Phaeacians and Cyclopes with the fact that the island νδρν χηρεύει , ‘is bereft of men’ (...)
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  3. Body and Soul Between Death and Funeral in Archaic Greece.Jan N. Bremmer - 2016 - In Peter Berger & Justin E. A. Kroesen (eds.), Ultimate ambiguities: investigating death and liminality. New York: Berghahn Books.
     
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    Before the Animal Liberation Front.Jan N. Bremmer - 1985 - The Classical Review 35 (02):312-.
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    Die Karriere der Seele. Vom antiken Griechenland ins moderne Europa.Jan N. Bremmer - 2012 - In Bernd Janowski (ed.), Der Ganze Mensch: Zur Anthropologie der Antike Und Ihrer Europäischen Nachgeschichte. De Gruyter. pp. 173-198.
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    Philosophers and the Mysteries.Jan N. Bremmer - 2017 - In Christoph Riedweg (ed.), Philosophia in der Konkurrenz von Schulen, Wissenschaften Und Religionen: Zur Pluralisierung des Philosophiebegriffs in Kaiserzeit Und Spätantike. De Gruyter. pp. 99-126.
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