Whether they really believed in an afterlife or not, ancient Greeks and Romans liked to tell ghost stories. And many of their stories sound surprisingly similar to modern ones. The ancient stories are full of walking corpses, flesh-eating ghouls, the grateful dead, necromancy, poltergeists, and especially haunted houses. If you think the chain-rattling ghost originated in Gothic literature or with Victorians like Charles Dickens, you may be pleasantly surprised to hear that such stories are two thousand years old or more!
Presented by Debbie Felton, Professor of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Image: Lekythos with Charon; Carole Raddato from Frankfurt, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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