Aspects of death and the afterlife in Greek literature /

The concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate of man after his/her allotted time has come to an end has a central position in poetry, philosophy and religion, often leading to questions and answers as to how one can best live o...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Gazis, George Alexander (Éditeur intellectuel), Hooper, Anthony (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2021.
Sujets:
Greek literature > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Future life in literature.
Littérature grecque > Histoire et critique.
Mort dans la littérature.
Vie future dans la littérature.
Greek literature.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Critiques littéraires.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • A path neither simple nor single: the afterlife as good to think with / Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
  • The somatics of the Greek dead / Vayos Liapis
  • Life and death of the Greek heroine in Odyssey 11 and the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women / Ioannis Ziogas
  • What is your lot? Lyric pessismism and Pindar's afterlife / George Alexander Gazis
  • In quest for authority: Parmenides and the tradition of Katabasis narratives / Nicolò Benzi
  • Death as dehumanisation in Sophocles' Philoctetes / Chiara Blanco
  • Socrates' conception of the underworld / Rick Benitez
  • Judges in Hades from Homer to Plato / Albergo Bernabé
  • Renovating the house of Hades: cult extensions and Socratic reconstructions / Anthony Hooper
  • Stoic agnosticisms about death / Alex Long.

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