Title: Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition
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."--
Subjects: Mediterranean region, history, Voyages to the otherworld, Voyages to the otherworld in literature, Civilization, Voyages dans l'au-delà, Dans la littérature, Méditerranée (région), Civilisation, 18.43 ancient Greek literature, 18.46 ancient Latin literature