Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Ekroth, Gunnel
2. Nilsson, Ingela

Description

1. xvii, 397 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "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."--

Series statement

1. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ; volume 2

Subject

1. Voyages to the otherworld
2. Voyages to the otherworld in literature
3. Civilization
4. Mediterranean Region > Civilization
5. Mediterranean Region

Contents

1. 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

Call number

1. JFE 19-1847

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

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

Publisher

1. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean ; volume 2

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Ekroth, Gunnel, editor.
2. Nilsson, Ingela, editor.

Other form:

1. Online version: Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition Boston : Brill, [2018] 9789004375963 (DLC) 2018041600

LCCN

1. 2018033025

Other standard identifier

1. 40028528127

ISBN

1. 9789004372665 hardcover
2. 9004372660 hardcover

Research call number

1. JFE 19-1847