Project Gutenberg 2021-01-14 Public domain in the USA. 230 Cumont, Franz 1868 1947 Cumont, F. (Franz Valery Marie) Cumont, Franciscus Cumont, Franz Valery Marie 22024887 After Life in Roman Paganism deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "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.) Reading ease score: 67.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Rome -- Religion Paganism -- Rome Future life BL Text Category: History - Ancient Category: History - Religious Category: Religion/Spirituality 753378 2025-07-25T11:21:38.694404 text/html 694954 2024-10-18T09:47:24 text/html 488927 2025-07-25T11:21:52.517371 application/epub+zip 490550 2025-07-25T11:21:41.316445 application/epub+zip 324867 2025-07-25T11:21:39.952436 application/epub+zip 718697 2025-07-25T11:21:59.576295 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 636590 2025-07-25T11:21:50.909375 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 470685 2022-09-28T22:59:06.215683 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 520029 2025-07-25T11:21:36.501399 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 500301 2024-10-18T09:47:24 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17266 2025-07-25T11:21:59.758293 application/rdf+xml 9772 2025-07-25T11:21:40.218407 image/jpeg 2123 2025-07-25T11:21:40.086391 image/jpeg 437670 2025-07-25T11:21:38.748420 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog fr.wikipedia en.wikipedia