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He makes a good contribution to the anthropology of death as well as to our understanding of ritual in the context of ancient Greek culture, and is concerned with examining the several missing links with the ancient world through later practices. This engrossing book is the first investigation of the life cycle of the ancient Greeks from the moment of conception to the onset of old age. Garland presents a rich, specific, and superbly documented cornucopia of evidence from literature, inscriptions, and the visual arts. The author here surveys interpretations of Helen in Greek literature from the Homeric period through later antiquity. He looks most closely at a revisionist myth according to which Helen never sailed to Troy but remained blameless while a libertine phantom or ghost impersonated her at Troy.