Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition

Download or read book Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition written by Gunnel Ekroth and published by Cultural Interactions in the M. This book was released on 2018 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The possibility of visiting the realms of the dead and yet returning alive is an idea that has fascinated people throughout time and across cultures. The European tradition goes back to Greek and Roman antiquity, represented by such famous round trips to Hades as those undertaken by Odysseus and Aeneas, but it is clear that the Graeco-Roman tradition had older Mesopotamian antecedents."--