عنوان

Pleading for Hell:

شماره

LA122637

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Pleading for Hell:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Postulates, Fantasies, and the Senselessness of Punishment

نام نخستين پديدآور

Walter Burkert

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

If the ideal of justice includes effective punishment of offenders, an extension into afterlife must be postulated. This still involves all the questionable aspects and paradoxes of punishment that make rational and enlightened argumentation difficult. A historical survey of ancient tentatives at hell lore shows diverse starting points and interests. There is just a germ of such speculations in Sumerian. When hell fire first appears in Egypt, it goes together with the fear of magic from the dead; in Zoroastrianism and Judaism it is partisan interest which makes the adherents of the wrong religion destined for hell. In Greece we find various ethical and poetical motifs interfering, from the powerful yet enigmatic images in the Odyssey to a general proclamation of punishments in the Hymn to Demeter. The most graphic and horrible descriptions of something like hell are finally found in Plato, whose sources - besides Homer - can be postulated but not identified. If the ideal of justice includes effective punishment of offenders, an extension into afterlife must be postulated. This still involves all the questionable aspects and paradoxes of punishment that make rational and enlightened argumentation difficult. A historical survey of ancient tentatives at hell lore shows diverse starting points and interests. There is just a germ of such speculations in Sumerian. When hell fire first appears in Egypt, it goes together with the fear of magic from the dead; in Zoroastrianism and Judaism it is partisan interest which makes the adherents of the wrong religion destined for hell. In Greece we find various ethical and poetical motifs interfering, from the powerful yet enigmatic images in the Odyssey to a general proclamation of punishments in the Hymn to Demeter. The most graphic and horrible descriptions of something like hell are finally found in Plato, whose sources - besides Homer - can be postulated but not identified.

تاريخ نشر

2009

توصيف ظاهري

141-160

عنوان

Numen

شماره جلد

56/2-3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1568-5276

اصطلاح موضوعی

NEKYIA

اصطلاح موضوعی

PLATO'S MYTHS

اصطلاح موضوعی

PROBLEM OF PUNISHMENT

اصطلاح موضوعی

SISYPHOS

اصطلاح موضوعی

SUMERIAN HELL

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Walter Burkert

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/156852709X404955

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y