People in antiquity believed any of the following about the afterlife except _____.
A) there was no afterlife
B) the soul left the body
C) they would be divinized and live on Mt Olympus with the gods
D) there was a bodily resurrection

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The belief in divinization and living on Mt. Olympus with the gods was not a common view of the afterlife in antiquity. Most ancient cultures had varied beliefs about the afterlife, including concepts of the soul leaving the body, bodily resurrection, or no afterlife at all, but the idea of becoming a god and living among them on Mt. Olympus was specific to Greek mythology and not a general belief about the afterlife.

People in Antiquity Believed Any of the Following About the Afterlife