Download This PaperSome Jokes About the Underworld on Greek Vases as Evidence for Debates About the Afterlife
22 Pages Posted: 28 Feb 2017
Date Written: May 1, 2006
Abstract
My paper today is an attempt to use some painted vases as evidence for a relatively ill-documented area of Greek thought about the afterlife, namely, beliefs about punishments after death. The vases in question have in common a comic or parodic approach to these punishments.
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Thompson, Erin, Some Jokes About the Underworld on Greek Vases as Evidence for Debates About the Afterlife (May 1, 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2923909 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2923909
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