Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition : visits to the underworld from antiquity to Byzantium / edited by Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunnel Ekroth; Ingela Nilsson (Volume Editors)

Contributor:

Ekroth, Gunnel, editor.

Nilsson, Ingela, editor.

Series:

Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean olume 2.

Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ; volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Voyages to the otherworld.

Voyages to the otherworld in literature.

Mediterranean Region--Civilization.

Mediterranean Region.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2018.

Summary:

"The possibility of visiting the realms of the dead and yet returning alive is an idea that has fascinated people throughout time and across cultures. The European tradition goes back to Greek and Roman antiquity, represented by such famous round trips to Hades as those undertaken by Odysseus and Aeneas, but it is clear that the Graeco-Roman tradition had older Mesopotamian antecedents."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Round Trip to Hades: An Introductory Tour / Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson

Travels to the Beyond: A Guide / Fritz Graf

Hades, Homer and the Hittites: The Cultic- Cultural Context of Odysseus' "Round Trip" to the Underworld / Gunnel Ekroth

Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod's Theogony / Ivana Petrovic and Andrei Petrovic

Introducing Oneself in Hades: Two "Orphic" Formulas Reconsidered / Scott Scullion

Pathein and Mathein in the Descents to Hades / Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui

From Alkestis to Archidike: Thessalian Attitudes to Death and the Afterlife / Sofia Kravaritou and Maria Stamatopoulou

Round Trip to Hades: Herakles' Advice and Directions / Annie Verbanck-Piérard

Hades in Hellenistic Philosophy (the Early Academy and Stoicism) / Adrian Mihai

Following the Dead to the Underworld: An Archaeological Approach to Graeco-Roman Death Oracles / Wiebke Friese

The Sounds of Katabasis: Bellowing, Roaring, and Hissing at the Crossing of Impervious Boundaries / Pierre Bonnechere

Down There and Back Again: Variations on the Katabasis Theme in Lucian / Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

From Hades to Hell: Christian Visions of the Underworld (2nd-5th centuries CE) / Zissis. D. Ainalis

The Virgin in Hades / Thomas Arentzen

Why Did Hades Become Beautiful in Byzantine Art? / Henry Maguire

Hades Meets Lazarus: The Literary Katabasis in Twelfth-Century Byzantium / Ingela Nilsson - "Heaven for Climate, Hell for Company": Byzantine Satirical Katabaseis / Przemyslaw Marciniak

Many (Un)Happy Returns: Ancient Greek Concepts of a Return from Death and Their Later Counterparts / Sarah Iles Johnston

Epilogue: Below the Tree of Life / Eric Cullhed and Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed

Notes:

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ISBN:

90-04-37596-1