Les Rites de l'au-delà. Protohistoire ten years after it went

ten years after it went out of print

Volume 139

the adaptation of the Greeks to Egyptian realities

Latomus collection

the emergence of a world of mixed race and of an ecumenical Hellenism

Les Rites de l'au-delà. Protohistoire ten years after it wentHumanity is defined by its relationship with death. Funeral rites are the trace of this essential relationship with the afterlife, which gives meaning to existence. Jean Pierre Mohen introduces us to them, in their richness, their variety, and sometimes their strangeness. From the Paleolithic to the beginnings of the Neolithic, via Egypt, Greece, ancient Rome, and even ancient China, to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; from Jericho to Easter