Abstract
The subject of the study is theoretical description, analysis and interpretation of death as a thematic field of research concerning the anthropology of death. Death is viewed as a biocultural phenomenon and sociocultural construction that can be presented in a specific historical and social context as a semiotic text.
The study focuses on comparative reflection of death in belles-lettres as it was depicted in epics, myths, fables, poetry and dramas of ancient authors in Greece, India and Egypt. The aim of the study is to elaborate, at least partially, on a major anthropological topic from the perspective of a relatively new discipline - the anthropology of death.
Since visualization of the realm of death through literary sources is difficult to grasp for illustrators, artificial intelligence algorithms were experimentally used for making of the illustrations: the illustrations are not works of artists, they were programmed in Midjourney software. Therefore, the article can be regarded as a treatise on how artificial intelligence views images of death.