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Dante's Divine Comedy: Hell, Purgatory, Paradise
A prose retelling of Dante's poem about a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
The narrative describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven, while allegorically the poem represents the soul's journey towards God.
Rhetoric and Reality in Plato's Phaedrus
The Phaedrus is well-known for the splendid mythical panorama Socrates develops in his second speech, and for its graphic descriptions of erotic behavior. This book shows how the details of the myth and the accounts of interaction between lovers are…
The Gnostics: Myth, Ritual, and Diversity in Early Christianity
Who were the Gnostics? And how did the Gnostic movement influence the development of Christianity in antiquity? Is it true that the Church rejected Gnosticism? This book offers an illuminating discussion of recent scholarly debates over the concept…