Myths of the Underworld Journey
Subtitle: Plato, Aristophanes, and the 'Orphic' Gold Tablets
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 20, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521834346
Subjects: Interdisciplinary Studies; Myths & mythology; Voyages to the otherworld; History: World; Folklore & Mythology - Mythology; History; Sociology; Ancient Greece; Mythology, Greek; Ancient - Greece; Antiquities & Archaeology; History / General; Dionysia; General; Phaedo; Plato
First sentence: So the journey is not as Aeschylus' Telephus describes it: he says it is a simple path that leads to Hades, but to me it seems to be neither simple nor single.