Beschreibung:
Emma Gee is an independent scholar and tutor in the Classics. Her previous books include Aratus and the Astronomical Tradition and Ovid, Aratus, and Augustus.
This book studies the afterlife from Homer to Dante. It posits that there is a dominant spatial idiom in afterlife landscapes, the 'Journey-Vision paradigm:' i.e. the journey through the underworld, and the Vision of the universe. This spatial duality functions to harmonise the underworld with the 'scientific' universe.
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