World Model · podcast knowledge graph

What to Expect When You're Dead

2026-04-20 · 46 min · 8 entities

episode page audio

Asserted relationships

  • → hosted by Helen Bond & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones person
    0.55
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed author/publisher: Helen Bond & Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
  • → discusses History website
    0.40
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: History
  • → discusses Religion & Spirituality concept
    0.40
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Religion & Spirituality
  • → discusses Christianity concept
    0.40
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Christianity

Entities found in this episode

concepts 4

  • mentioned Religion & Spirituality concept
    0.50
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Religion & Spirituality
  • mentioned Christianity concept
    0.50
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Christianity
  • discusses Religion & Spirituality concept
    0.40
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Religion & Spirituality
  • discusses Christianity concept
    0.40
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: Christianity

persons 2

websites 2

  • mentioned History website
    0.50
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: History
  • discusses History website
    0.40
    evidence rules-v5
    Feed category: History
Episode description as stored
How did people in biblical times imagine life after death? On this episode, Lloyd is joined in the time machine by Robert Garland for ancient tour of the afterlife. Drawing on a panoply of cultures – from Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia to Greece, Rome, and early Christianity – Robert charts a map of what ancient people believed about death and the world beyond.  Robert Garland is a British historian, philologist and Emeritus Roy D. and Margaret B. Wooster Professor of the Classics at Colgate Universityin New York. He specializes in ancient Greek history, religion, and daily life , and is the author of numerous books including What to Expect When You’re Dead: An Ancient Tour of the Afterlife (2025).  Support the show Theme music written and performed by Dave Roos, creator of Biblical Time Machine. Season 4 + 5 produced by John Nelson.