Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry (Sather Classical Lectures)
"A brilliant digressive essay, full of asides and illustrations.  . . . A  delight to read."  --Peter Green,  New York Review of Books"Like all born teachers, [Vermeule] has the ability to convince  you that  her subject relates to your own life and culture. . . . A fabulous  learning  experience, the essays are both lively and totally accessible."  --Boston  Globe"No sonorous deductions here about eschatology; no maps of the  Greek  underworld, charting its circles, names its denizens. The Greek dead can  appear  as a midge or as an, apparently, full-fleshed man; he is removed from  pain, yet  can feel it and carries his old scars. . . . All this, and much more  than this,  is presented . . . by a consummate scholar with a lightness and wit  which belie  her scholarship. . . . This book could win many converts to the study of  Greece  and Greek."   --John Boardman, Times Literary Supplement