Imagining the Afterlife in the Ancient World explores these key questions through a series of wide-ranging studies, taking in ghosts, demons, dreams, cosmology, and the mutilation of corpses along the way, offering a valuable resource to those studying all aspects of death in the ancient world.

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction, Juliette Harrisson; Part 1: The Afterlife at Greek Funerary Sites; 1. Visualizing the Afterlife in Classical Athens: Interactions between the Living and the Dead on White-Ground Lêkythoi, Molly Evangeline Allen; 2. Phrasikleia: Playing with Signs, Nick Brown; Part 2: The afterlife at Roman and Etruscan Funerary Sites; 3. "Break on Through to the Other Side": The Etruscan Netherworld and its Demons, Isabella Bossolino; 4. Guide of Souls? Mercurius Psychopompos in Roman Dalmatia, Josipa Luli¿; 5. Funerary Dining Scenes in Roman Tombs: Ensuring Happiness in the Afterlife, Gabriela Ingle; Part 3: The Afterlife in Literature; 6. Cosmology, Psychopomps, and Afterlife in Homer's Odyssey, Safari F. Grey; 7. Daphnis' Tomb: Space for Immortality in Virgil's 5th Eclogue, Stephanie Crooks; 8. Reality and Unreality: Literature and Folklore in Propertius 4.7, Juliette Harrisson; Part 4: The Afterlife in Late Antique Tradition; 9. A Ritual of the Afterlife or the Afterlife of a Ritual: Maschalismos in Ancient Greece and Beyond, Julia Doroszewska and Janek Kucharski; 10. Servius on Virgil's Underworld in Late Antiquity, Frances Foster; Index