{"title":"Socrates’ Conception of the Underworld","authors":"Rick Benitez","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.10","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter seven examines Plato’s Apology, where Socrates describes one view of what might await us after death in terms of a familiar conception of the Underworld. There are the souls of heroes, kings, and great criminals as well. As Socrates’ description proceeds, however, we find that his conception of life and activity in the Underworld is very different from the traditional one. In fact, by the standards of his contemporaries, Socrates’ conception of the Underworld would seem bizarre, in that it involves an eternity of conversation and reasoning. Benitez argues that Socrates’ conception of the Underworld uses familiar ideas to convey an unfamiliar view to his audience, and to make that view seem attractive. Beneath the mythological trappings lies a view about death in which what survives is impersonal. In addition, there is an unusual lesson about life in Socrates’ conception, namely that the best life is like the best death: rational and impersonal. The appeal of this view may lie in the way that anxiety over death is lessened by the Socratic life.","PeriodicalId":380968,"journal":{"name":"Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature","volume":"247 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114814455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What is your Lot?","authors":"G. Gazis","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380968,"journal":{"name":"Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131554553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Judges in Hades from Homer to Plato","authors":"A. Bernabé","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.11","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 8 explores the origins of the concept of post-mortem judgement in the Greek world, which Benarbé argues attains a position of prominence originally in the dialogues of Plato. Although not without precedent entirely in the earlier literary tradition, and continually presented as a traditional idea by Socrates himself, Benarbé demonstrates that references to post-mortem judgement before Plato are infrequent, inconsistent, and inconspicuous. Benarbé provides considerable illumination to this topic through firstly collating the fragmentary claims concerning post-mortem judgement before Plato, secondly noting the different, and often conflicting ways in which such material is deployed throughout the dialogues; and thirdly demonstrating how the theme is adapted to suit the dialectic requirements of the particular dialogues.","PeriodicalId":380968,"journal":{"name":"Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature","volume":"2601 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128838228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stoic Agnosticisms about Death","authors":"A. Long","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380968,"journal":{"name":"Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130081932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Index Locorum","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1qp9gc9.15","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":380968,"journal":{"name":"Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114698441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}