re: #223 wheat-dogghazi

A god, or demigod, is just not worth his salt until he can make a dead man walk again.

Come to think of it, I can’t remember if any of the Greek gods successfully revived a dead person. IIRC, either they stayed in Hades or got turned into a constellation if they were really special. If the early Christians were trying to outdo the pagan gods, making the dead walk would be a winner.

Persephone let Sisyphus escape Hades after death. Actually he tricked her into letting him out. That’s how the Greeks did it, it generally wasn’t a resurrection per se, but a return from the Underworld. I don’t think they got into the mechanics of how that worked with the corpse and all.