Living for ever
Mary Renault, 18 September 1980
The Cult of the Immortal
by Ange-Pierre Leca.
Souvenir, 304 pp., £8.95, July 1980,0 285 62393 1 Show More
by Ange-Pierre Leca.
Souvenir, 304 pp., £8.95, July 1980,
“... did not preserve like the dry sands. Thus began the elaborate processes described in detail by Herodotus, which in the costly full treatment took 70 days. Dehydrated in natron, eviscerated – the organs carefully preserved for the subject’s later use in separate pickle-jars – the emptied thorax stuffed with rags, the shrunken limbs often padded with ... ”