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- catalog contributor b1785139.
- catalog coverage "Rome Religion.".
- catalog coverage "Rome".
- catalog created "1922.".
- catalog date "1922".
- catalog date "1922.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1922.".
- catalog description "Bibliographical foot-notes.".
- catalog description "Combined with other doctrines: three stages -- Passage through the planetary spheres -- Souls rise above the stars -- IV. The winning of immortality -- Ancient conception of immortality -- Eminent men gods on earth -- Immortality of the few -- Mysteries claim to procure "deification" -- Lustrations -- Unctions -- Ritual banquets -- The gnosis -- Identification with a particular god -- Illumination by the astral divinities -- Philosophy also leads to union with God -- V. Untimely death -- Children not admitted to the Elysian fields -- Those who die violetn deaths -- Influence of astrology -- Pythagorism -- Magic -- Philosophical reaction -- Children initiated -- Their souls rise to heaven -- Different categories of bianthanati -- Soldiers slain in battle -- Suicides -- Executed criminals -- Persistence of ancient beliefs -- VI. The journey to the beyond -- Journey to the nether world -- The Pythagorean Y -- The two roads -- How the dead reach heaven -- On foot, by means of a ladder -- ".
- catalog description "Historical introduction -- I. After life in the tomb -- Survival of primitive beliefs -- After life of the body -- The tomb "eternal house" -- Food for the dead -- Sacrifices -- Funeral meals -- Gardens -- Connection of the dead with the living -- The aerial souls -- Beneficent or malevolent -- Souls of the unburied -- Become ghosts -- II. The nether world -- Belief in the nether world -- After life prolongation of earthly life -- Greek doctrines introduced into Italy -- Philosophical criticism -- Hades transported to this life -- Distinction of "soul" and shade -- Hades is the lower hemisphere -- Hades in the air -- Skepticism -- Persistence of old tradition in literature and art -- Ancient beliefs maintained in the people -- Neo Platonists -- Persian dualism -- III. Celestial immortality -- Widespread beliefs that souls rise to the stars -- Unknown in ancient Greece -- Pythagorism -- Lunar immortality -- Solar immortality -- Combination of both -- Stellar immortality -- ".
- catalog description "In a boat -- On horseback -- In a chariot -- As a bird -- Carried by an eagle -- Solar attraction -- Physical theory -- The air peopled with demons -- The gates of the planetary spheres -- Guide of the souls -- Physical character of the dead -- The shade and the soul -- Distinction of soul and reason -- Neo platonic vehicle -- VII. The sufferings of hell and metempsychosis -- Origin in Homer -- Orphic theology -- Resemblance to penal law -- Apocryphal gospel of Peter -- Oriental influence -- Fire of hell -- Metempsychosis, in animistic basis -- Origin in Greece -- Souls passing continually through different kinds of beings -- Reincarnation a punishment -- "Palingenesis" or uncontinuous reincarnation -- Transmigration from man to man -- Purification of the soul in the air -- By water and fire -- Purgatory in the atmosphere -- The purified spirit remains in heaven -- VIII. The felicity of the blessed -- Rest in the tomb -- In the nether world -- In the light of heaven -- ".
- catalog description "Persistence of these ideas among the Christians -- Repast of the dead -- Repast in the nether world -- The funeral banquet and the sacred meal of the mysteries -- Banquet in heaven -- Persistence in Christianity -- The sight of the god -- In the astral cults -- Communion of man with the stars -- Immortality a contemplation of the astral gods -- Astral mysticism -- Ecstasy of the neo Platonists -- Last conception of eternal bliss.".
- catalog extent "xv, 224, [2] p.".
- catalog hasFormat "After life in Roman paganism.".
- catalog isFormatOf "After life in Roman paganism.".
- catalog isPartOf "Mrs. Hepsa Ely Silliman memorial lectures".
- catalog issued "1922".
- catalog issued "1922.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven, Yale University Press; [etc., etc.]".
- catalog relation "After life in Roman paganism.".
- catalog spatial "Rome Religion.".
- catalog spatial "Rome".
- catalog subject "292".
- catalog subject "BL815.F8 C9 1922".
- catalog subject "BL815.F8 C9".
- catalog subject "Future life.".
- catalog subject "Religion".
- catalog tableOfContents "Combined with other doctrines: three stages -- Passage through the planetary spheres -- Souls rise above the stars -- IV. The winning of immortality -- Ancient conception of immortality -- Eminent men gods on earth -- Immortality of the few -- Mysteries claim to procure "deification" -- Lustrations -- Unctions -- Ritual banquets -- The gnosis -- Identification with a particular god -- Illumination by the astral divinities -- Philosophy also leads to union with God -- V. Untimely death -- Children not admitted to the Elysian fields -- Those who die violetn deaths -- Influence of astrology -- Pythagorism -- Magic -- Philosophical reaction -- Children initiated -- Their souls rise to heaven -- Different categories of bianthanati -- Soldiers slain in battle -- Suicides -- Executed criminals -- Persistence of ancient beliefs -- VI. The journey to the beyond -- Journey to the nether world -- The Pythagorean Y -- The two roads -- How the dead reach heaven -- On foot, by means of a ladder -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Historical introduction -- I. After life in the tomb -- Survival of primitive beliefs -- After life of the body -- The tomb "eternal house" -- Food for the dead -- Sacrifices -- Funeral meals -- Gardens -- Connection of the dead with the living -- The aerial souls -- Beneficent or malevolent -- Souls of the unburied -- Become ghosts -- II. The nether world -- Belief in the nether world -- After life prolongation of earthly life -- Greek doctrines introduced into Italy -- Philosophical criticism -- Hades transported to this life -- Distinction of "soul" and shade -- Hades is the lower hemisphere -- Hades in the air -- Skepticism -- Persistence of old tradition in literature and art -- Ancient beliefs maintained in the people -- Neo Platonists -- Persian dualism -- III. Celestial immortality -- Widespread beliefs that souls rise to the stars -- Unknown in ancient Greece -- Pythagorism -- Lunar immortality -- Solar immortality -- Combination of both -- Stellar immortality -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "In a boat -- On horseback -- In a chariot -- As a bird -- Carried by an eagle -- Solar attraction -- Physical theory -- The air peopled with demons -- The gates of the planetary spheres -- Guide of the souls -- Physical character of the dead -- The shade and the soul -- Distinction of soul and reason -- Neo platonic vehicle -- VII. The sufferings of hell and metempsychosis -- Origin in Homer -- Orphic theology -- Resemblance to penal law -- Apocryphal gospel of Peter -- Oriental influence -- Fire of hell -- Metempsychosis, in animistic basis -- Origin in Greece -- Souls passing continually through different kinds of beings -- Reincarnation a punishment -- "Palingenesis" or uncontinuous reincarnation -- Transmigration from man to man -- Purification of the soul in the air -- By water and fire -- Purgatory in the atmosphere -- The purified spirit remains in heaven -- VIII. The felicity of the blessed -- Rest in the tomb -- In the nether world -- In the light of heaven -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Persistence of these ideas among the Christians -- Repast of the dead -- Repast in the nether world -- The funeral banquet and the sacred meal of the mysteries -- Banquet in heaven -- Persistence in Christianity -- The sight of the god -- In the astral cults -- Communion of man with the stars -- Immortality a contemplation of the astral gods -- Astral mysticism -- Ecstasy of the neo Platonists -- Last conception of eternal bliss.".
- catalog title "After life in Roman paganism; lectures delivered at Yale University on the Silliman foundation, by Franz Cumont.".
- catalog type "text".