
Heaven and Hell
Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition
Louis Markos(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 17. May 2013
244 pages
978-1-62189-685-2 (ISBN)
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For thousands of years, philosophers, theologians, and poets have tried to pierce through the veil of death to gaze with wonder, fear, and awe on the final and eternal state of the soul. Indeed, the four great epic poets of the Western tradition (Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton) structured their epics in part around a descent into the underworld that is both spiritual and physical, both allegorical and geographical. This book not only considers closely these epic journeys to the "other side," but explores the chain of influences that connects the poets to such writers as Plato, Cicero, St. John, St. Paul, Bunyan, Blake, and C. S. Lewis. Written in a narrative, "man of letters" style and complete with an annotated bibliography, a timeline, a who's who, and an extensive glossary of Jewish, Christian, and mythological terms, this user-friendly book will help readers understand how heaven and hell have been depicted for the last 3,000 years.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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978-1-62189-685-2 (9781621896852)
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Louis Markos (www.Loumarkos.com), Professor in English and Scholar in Residence at Houston Baptist University, holds the Robert H. Ray Chair in Humanities. He is the author of From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Sheol and Hades
- Chapter 3: Odysseus in the Underworld
- Chapter 4: Plato and the Geography of the Underworld
- Chapter 5: Plato and the Theology of the Afterlife
- Chapter 6: Aeneas in the Underworld
- Chapter 7: Virgil & Cicero
- Chapter 8: The Shape of Dante's Universe
- Chapter 9: Christian Humanism
- Chapter 10: Dante's Inferno I
- Chapter 11: Dante's Inferno II
- Chapter 12: Dante's Inferno III
- Chapter 13: Jesus, Paul, and John
- Chapter 14: Dante's Purgatorio I
- Chapter 15: Dante's Purgatorio II
- Chapter 16: Dante's Paradiso I
- Chapter 17: Dante's Paradiso II
- Chapter 18: Milton's Paradise Lost I
- Chapter 19: Milton's Paradise Lost II
- Chapter 20: Bunyan and Donne
- Chapter 21: Satan as Hero
- Chapter 22: Heaven is a State of Mind
- Chapter 23: Heaven is Reality
- Chapter 24: Science and the Afterlife
- Bibliography
- Timeline
- Glossary
- Who's Who
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