Mapping the afterlife: from Homer to Dante

This book is a tour of afterlife landscapes from Homer to Dante. It argues that the topography of the afterlife in Greek and Roman tradition, and in Dante, reflects the state of "scientific" knowledge at the time of the various contexts in which we find it, and the landscape of the Other W...

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1. Verfasser: Gee, Emma 1970- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Oxford University Press 2020
Schriftenreihe:Oxford scholarship online
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Zusammenfassung:This book is a tour of afterlife landscapes from Homer to Dante. It argues that the topography of the afterlife in Greek and Roman tradition, and in Dante, reflects the state of "scientific" knowledge at the time of the various contexts in which we find it, and the landscape of the Other World is a way of exploring and assimilating the shape of this world. This book posits that there is a dominant spatial idiom in afterlife landscapes, which the author calls the "journey-vision paradigm." By this she means the presence of two kinds of space in afterlife representations-the horizontal journey of the soul across the afterlife landscape, and a synoptic vision of the universe
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (368 Seiten)
ISBN:9780190670511
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780190670481.001.0001