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OverviewThe concept of the afterlife has always been prominent in both Greek literature and modern scholarship alike. The fate of man after his/her allotted time has come to an end has a central position in poetry, philosophy and religion, often leading to questions and answers as to how one can best live one’s life, and how can one deal with the burden of mortality that is inherent in every human being. The Greeks devoted a considerable amount of their literary production in an attempt to answer these questions through a variety of different media, whereas similar concerns appear to have been at the core of the ancient world in general. This volume represents the first to examine the influences, intersections, and developments of understandings of death and the afterlife between poetic, religious, and philosophical traditions in ancient Greece in one resource. Greek thinking on death and the afterlife was neither uniform, simple, nor static, and by offering an examination of these matters in a properly interdisciplinary context this collection of papers aims to demonstrate the full richness, complexity, and flexibility of these ideas in the ancient Greek world, and illuminate how freely writers from various genres drew inspiration from each other’s thinking concerning eschatological matters. Contributors: Alberto Benarbé; Rick Benitez; Nicolo Benzi; Chiara Blanco; Radcliffe Edmonds; George Alexander Gazis; Anthony Hooper; Vaios Liapis; Alex Long; Ioannis Ziogas. Full Product DetailsAuthor: George Alexander Gazis , Anthony Hooper (Lecturer, University of Wollongong (Australia))Publisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 9781802074802ISBN 10: 1802074805 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 01 March 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. A Path Neither Simple Nor Single: The Afterlife as Good to Think with. Radcliffe Edmonds 2. The Somatics of the Greek Dead Vaios Liapis 3. Life and Death of the Greek Heroine in Odyssey 11 and the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women Ioannis Ziogas 4. What is your lot? Lyric pessimism and Pindar’s afterlife George Alexander Gazis 5. In quest for authority: Parmenides and the tradition of katabasis narratives Nicolo Benzi 6. Death as dehumanization in Sophocles’ Philoctetes Chiara Blanco 7. Socrates' Conception of the Underworld Rick Benitez 8. Judges in Hades from Homer to Plato Alberto Benarbé 9. Renovating the House of Hades: Cult Extensions and Socratic Reconstructions Anthony Hooper 10. Stoic agnosticisms about death Alex LongReviews"'The overarching theme of the volume is the great variety, malleability, conflation, and manipulation of the traditional views of the afterlife. This is an important point, and the essays collectively make it. They are, to echo the title of Edmonds’ opening essay, “good to think with.""' Michael Halleran, Bryn Mawr Classical Review" "'The overarching theme of the volume is the great variety, malleability, conflation, and manipulation of the traditional views of the afterlife. This is an important point, and the essays collectively make it. They are, to echo the title of Edmonds’ opening essay, “good to think with.""' Michael Halleran, Bryn Mawr Classical Review" Author InformationGeorge Alexander Gazis is an Assistant Professor in Greek Literature at the Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University. He is the author of Homer and the poetics of Hades (OUP 2018). Anthony Hooper is Lecturer at the School of Liberal Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. His research focuses particularly on intersections between Greek philosophy, poetry, and religion. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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