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Mapping the afterlife : from Homer to Dante / Emma Gee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gee, Emma, 1970- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Future life--History--To 1500.
- Future life.
- Future life in literature.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 365 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
- Contents:
- Pt. 1. Dualities. The splitting of Herakles
- The road map
- Proserpina's tapestry, Strabo's cloak
- Pt. 2. Cosmos. The cloak of stars
- Soul music
- Intermezzo: Cycles
- Pt. 3. Plato's soulscapes. Interplanetary harmonies
- A sprinkling of science
- The lyre and the cloak: the cosmology of soul in Plato's Phaedo
- Pt. 4. To the sky. The dark side of the moon
- Dante's poem of fire.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780190670481
- 0190670487
- OCLC:
- 1104913866
- Publisher Number:
- 99984751830
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