CLAS 637The Underworld and Afterlife in Ancient Mediterranean Literature
- Level
- Graduate
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- Spring 2012
No longer offered. It’s in the archived Graduate Calendars from Winter 2008 to Spring 2012.
This course explores the development of the idea of the Underworld and Afterlife, with special attention to the catabasis (the visit to the Underworld), in literary and epigraphic sources from Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece and Rome. Analyses will focus on the philosophical, religious, political, psychological and literary dimensions of the material.
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