Round trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean tradition: visits to the underworld from antiquity to Byzantium

"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 a...

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Corporate Author: Roundtrip to Hades, Veranstaltung 2014, Uppsala (Author)
Contributors: Ekroth, Gunnel 1963- (Editor) ; Nilsson, Ingela 1970- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2018]
In: Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean (volume 2)
Year: 2018
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Series/Journal:Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean volume 2
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Levant / Belief in the hereafter / Nekyia / Underworld (Motif) / History
Further subjects:B Conference program Universität Uppsala 09.10.2014-12.10.2014 (Uppsala)
B Voyages to the otherworld
B Voyages to the otherworld in literature
B Mediterranean Region Civilization
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