Underworld : Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting /

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"What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerberos, who was captured by Herakles. For mere m...

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Other Authors: Montanaro, Andrea C., 1970- (Contributor), Kotansky, Roy D. (Roy David), 1953- (Contributor), Johnston, Sarah Iles, 1957- (Contributor), Heuer, Keely Elizabeth (Contributor), Saunders, David (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Vases, Ancient > Themes, motives.
Hell in art.
Future life in art.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient.
Antiquities.
Vie future dans l'art > Expositions.
Funerailles > Rites et ceremonies > Histoire > Jusqu'à 500 > Expositions.
Vases antiques > Italie > Mezzogiorno > Themes, motifs > Expositions.
Vases apuliens > Themes, motifs > Expositions.
Peinture de vases > Italie > Mezzogiorno > Themes, motifs > Expositions.
Hell in art > Exhibitions.
Future life in art > Exhibitions.
Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient > Exhibitions.
Vases, Ancient > Italy, Southern > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Vases, Apulian > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Vase-painting > Italy, Southern > Themes, motives > Exhibitions.
Southern Italy.
Italy, Southern > Antiquities > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Ancient Greek tales of the afterlife / Sarah Iles Johnston
  • Dialogues of the dead on the "Orphic" gold tablets / Roy D. Kotansky
  • Sacred sites of Apulia / Keely Elizabeth Heuer
  • Apulian funerary practices / Andrea Celestino Montanaro
  • Imagining the afterlife in south Italian vase painting / David Saunders
  • Catalogue / David Saunders.

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