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Angels & Demons is a 2000 bestselling mystery-thriller novel written by American author Dan Brown and published by Pocket Books and then by Corgi Books.

The novel introduces the character Robert Langdon, who is also the protagonist of Brown's subsequent novels - The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and Origin.

Angels & Demons shares many stylistic literary elements with its sequel, such as conspiracies of secret societies, a single-day time frame, and the Catholic Church.

Ancient history, architecture, and symbolism are also heavily referenced throughout the book.

A film adaptation was released on May 15, 2009.

The Da Vinci Code film had been released in 2006.

The afterlife (also referred to as life after death or the hereafter) is the concept of a realm, or the realm itself (whether physical or transcendental), in which an essential part of an individual's identity or consciousness continues to exist after the death of the body.

According to various ideas about the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, of an individual, which carries with it and may confer personal identity or, on the contrary, may not, as in Indian nirvana.

Belief in an afterlife, which may be naturalistic or supernatural, is in contrast to the belief in oblivion after death.

Ancient Greece was a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th-9th centuries BC to the end of antiquity (AD).

Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era.

Roughly three centuries after the Late Bronze Age collapse of Mycenaean Greece, Greek urban poleis began to form in the 8th century BC, ushering in the period of Archaic Greece and colonization of the Mediterranean Basin.

This was followed by the period of Classical Greece, an era that began with the Greco-Persian Wars, lasting from the 5th to 4th centuries BC.

Due to the conquests by Alexander the Great of Macedonia, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.

The Hellenistic period came to an end with the conquests and annexations of the eastern Mediterranean world by the Roman Republic, which established the Roman province of Macedonia in Roman Greece, and later the province of Achaea during the Roman Empire.

A myth is any traditional story consisting of events that are ostensibly historical, though often supernatural, explaining the origins of a cultural practice or natural phenomenon.

The word "myth" is derived from the Greek word mythos, which simply means "story".

Mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths.

Myth can mean 'sacred story', 'traditional narrative' or 'tale of the gods'.

A myth can also be a story to explain why something exists.

Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.

Myths are the stories people tell to explain nature, history and customs.