Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition
Subtitle: Visits to the Underworld from Antiquity to Byzantium
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9789004372665
Subjects: Mediterranean region, history
Description: "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."--