Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition : visits to the underworld from antiquity to Byzantium
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Ekroth, Gunnel
, [HerausgeberIn]
Nilsson, Ingela , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Boston :
Brill,
2018.
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| Umfang/Format: |
1 online resource (xvii, 397 pages) : illustrations. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean
2 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
| Online Zugang: |
Online availabel |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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
