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After Life in Roman Paganism

by Franz Cumont

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  • 20th century
  • Language: English
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"After Life in Roman Paganism" by Franz Cumont is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The work discusses the beliefs and ideas of Roman paganism regarding the afterlife, focusing on the conceptions of the soul's fate after death. This analysis highlights the evolving beliefs about immortality, punishment, and reward that characterized the religious landscape of ancient Rome. At the start of the text, the author sets the stage for the exploration of Roman beliefs about the afterlife, noting the contemporary relevance of these ideas given the horrors of recent conflicts. Cumont indicates the need for a comprehensive investigation into the evolution of Roman eschatological thought, tracing how earlier notions of afterlife shifted as philosophical schools like Epicureanism and Stoicism influenced societal views. He touches on the importance of burial practices, the persistence of primitive beliefs, and the various conceptions of the nether world, all of which provide a framework for understanding how ancient Romans perceived death and life after it. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Included because retained bibliographic metadata links this work to Afterlife, reincarnation, and near-death experiences and Ancient religions, animism, and ritual.

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    Controlled discovery queries from online-books-page and project-gutenberg matched “Paganism” and “paganism”. Retained metadata contains “Paganism” in the title, “Paganism” in the description, “Paganism” in the subject metadata, and 1 additional metadata match(es).

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1922

1922———Public digitized item

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2021-01-14Project GutenbergEnglish—Public domain (USA)

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  • Contributing institution: Robarts - University of Toronto
  • Digitization sponsor: MSN
  • Original print publication date and source edition are absent from Project Gutenberg metadata.
  • Source-listed Library of Congress call number(s): BL815.F8 C9
  • The Online Books Page bibliographic note: 1922
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