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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press UK,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190670511 0190670517 9780190670498 0190670495 9780190670504 0190670509 |