Orpheus in the Underworld. Apulian Images of the Soul’s Destiny
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Orpheus, Underworld, Hades, Persephone, Mystic Cults, Magna Graecia, iconography.
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A small group of Apulian vases of the second half of the IV century B.C. show the descent of Orpheus to the Underworld, his arrival to Hades’ and Persephone’s palace, where he was able to thrill both infernal gods with his song. The iconographic program of these vases, full of mythical stories and religious teachings destined to give comfort and hope of life beyond death, allows us to know the imagery of the underworld kingdom and of this religious character that intercedes before the netherworld gods to obtain from them the salvation of the mortals and their entry in a beatifical and paradisiacal world beyond ours.Downloads
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Cabrera P. (2018). Orpheus in the Underworld. Apulian Images of the Soul’s Destiny. ’Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de las Religiones, 23, 31-56. https://doi.org/10.5209/ILUR.61020
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