Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition, Visits to the Underworld from Antiquity to Byzantium.
Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores how the theme of visiting the Underworld and returning alive has been treated, transmitted and transformed in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions. The journey was usually a descent ( katabasis ) into a dark and dull place, wh...
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Language: English
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Leiden, Boston:
Brill,
2018.
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Cultural Interactions in the Mediterranean
2.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2018, ISBN: 9789004353282.
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Call Number: BL545 .R68 2018
- Round Trip to Hades /
- Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson
- Travels to the Beyond /
- Fritz Graf
- Hades, Homer and the Hittites /
- Gunnel Ekroth
- Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod's Theogony /
- Ivana Petrovic and Andrej Petrovic
- Introducing Oneself in Hades /
- Scott Scullion
- Pathein and Mathein in the Descents to Hades /
- Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui
- From Alkestis to Archidike /
- Sofia Kravaritou and Maria Stamatopoulou
- Round Trip to Hades /
- Annie Verbanck-Piérard
- Hades in Hellenistic Philosophy (The Early Academy and Stoicism) /
- Adrian Mihai
- Following the Dead to the Underworld /
- Wiebke Friese
- The Sounds of Katabasis /
- Pierre Bonnechere
- Down There and Back Again /
- Heinz-Günther Nesselrath
- From Hades to Hell /
- Zissis D. Ainalis
- The Virgin in Hades /
- Thomas Arentzen
- Why did Hades Become Beautiful in Byzantine Art? /
- Henry Maguire
- Hades Meets Lazarus /
- Ingela Nilsson
- "Heaven for Climate, Hell for Company" /
- Przemysław Marciniak
- Many (Un)Happy Returns /
- Sarah Iles Johnston
- Epilogue /
- Eric Cullhed and Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed.