The ancient Greeks and Romans had very different views on the afterlife. They both believed there was life after death but they had many different theories on what it was like.
The ancient Greek views on the afterlife were very unique. There underworld, our version of hell, was deep beneath the earth where hades and his wife reined over all the damned people. The underworld was a very awful place. The greeks beleived that when you died your sould left the body as a little breath.
The Egyptians were very diffrent. If an Egyptian died they would burry them with all of their possessions in a massive tomb. They would remove all the organs and put them in jars becuase the beleived they were weighing the body down. Then the sould would enter a room and if the dead persons soul's hear is lighter than a feather they got into heaven but if it wasnt they had to keep trying before they could enter heaven.
Department of Greek and Roman Art. "Death, Burial, and the Afterlife in Ancient Greece". InHeilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/dbag/hd_dbag.htm (October 2003)
http://www.sacred-texts.com/egy/ebod/
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