Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting Saunders David
Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting Saunders David Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase…
Specifikacia Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting Saunders David
Underworld: Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting Saunders David
Abundantly illustrated, this essential volume examines depictions of the Underworld in southern Italian vase painting and explores the religious and cultural beliefs behind them.What happens to us when we die? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. What might the afterlife look like?
For mere mortals, ritual and religion offered possibilities for ensuring a happy existence in the beyond, and some of the richest evidence for beliefs about death comes from southern Italy, where the local Italic peoples engaged with Greek beliefs. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerberos, who was captured by Herakles. Monumental funerary vases that accompanied the deceased were decorated with consolatory scenes from myth, and around forty preserve elaborate depictions of Hades's domain.
Lolita in the Afterlife
Plum in the Golden Vase
The Painting in the Attic