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Reading the Way to the Netherworld - Education and the Representations of the Beyond in Later Antiquity (Hardcover, Aufl. ed.)
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Reading the Way to the Netherworld - Education and the Representations of the Beyond in Later Antiquity (Hardcover, Aufl. ed.)
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The volume focuses on the various representations of the Beyond in
later Antiquity, a period of intense interaction and competition
between various religious traditions and ideals of education. The
concepts and images clustering around the Beyond form a crucial
focal point for understanding the dynamics of religion and
education in later Antiquity. Although Christianity gradually
supersedes the pagan traditions, the literary representations of
the Beyond derived from classical literature and transmitted
through the texts read at school show a remarkable persistence:
they influence Christian late antique writers and are still alive
in medieval literature of the East and West. A specifically
Christian Beyond develops only gradually, and coexists subsequently
with pagan ideas, which in turn vary according to the respective
literary and philosophical contexts. Thus, the various
conceptualisations of the great existential unknown, serves here as
a point of reference for mirroring the changes and continuities in
Imperial and Late Antique religion, education, and culture, and
opening up further perspectives into the Medieval world.
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