Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition - eBook
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Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition - eBook  -     By: Louis Markos

Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition - eBook

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Title: Heaven and Hell: Visions of the Afterlife in the Western Poetic Tradition - eBook
By: Louis Markos
Format: DRM Free ePub
Vendor: Cascade Books
Publication Date: 2013
ISBN: 9781621896852
ISBN-13: 9781621896852
Stock No: WW111567EB

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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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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.

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