LIFE-DEATH PROBLEM IN CULTURE OF PRE-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY

Abstract

Attitude towards life - death during the antiquity and in the Middle Ages is considered. The comparative analysis of these phases of history is given. The author presents a number of reasons to explain the established attitude towards life and death in the given cultures.

Keywords

• life and death, ancient greece, gods, myths and legends, heroism, customs, vendetta, death penalty, middle ages, "tame death", christianity, magic faiths, christian death, manichaeism.