Suzanne Lye

Life / Afterlife (eBook, ePUB)

Revolution and Reflection in the Ancient Greek Underworld from Homer to Lucian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Life / Afterlife traces the development, evolution, and uses of underworld scenes in ancient Greek literature and society. Underworld scenes are a unique form of embedded storytelling, appearing across time and genres. These scenes employ a special register of language that acts as a narrative space outside of chronological time and everyday reality. Suzanne Lye shows how writers such as Homer, Hesiod, Aristophanes, Plato, and Lucian, among others, used afterlife depictions as commentaries to communicate a call to action for their audiences in response to cultural, religious, and political changes to their worlds.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197690215
• Artikelnr.: 72256641

Autorenporträt

Suzanne Lye is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Note on Texts, Translations, and Transliterations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Synoptic Underworld: Overview of a Narrative Construct
Chapter 2. Afterlife Poetics and Homer's Heroic Underworlds
Chapter 3. Becoming Blessed and Underworlds of Judgment
Chapter 4. Crafting Heroic Blessedness through Underworld Scenes
Chapter 5. World and Underworld: Democratizing the Afterlife through Underworld Scenes
Chapter 6. Plato's Underworlds: Revising the Afterlife
Chapter 7. Epilogue: The Afterlife of the Afterlife