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Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition. Visits to the Underworld from Antiquity to Byzantium&#160;Editors: Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson, 2018 Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores how the theme of visiting the Underworld and returning alive has been treated, transmitted and transformed in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions. The journey was usually a descent (katabasis) into a dark and dull place, where forgetfulness and punishment reigned, but since ‘everyone’ was there, it was also a place that offered opportunities to meet people and socialize. Famous Classical round trips to Hades include those undertaken by Odysseus and Aeneas, but this pagan topic also caught the interest of Christian writers. The contributions of the present volume allow the reader to follow the passage from pagan to Christian representations of Hades – a passage that may seem surprisingly effortless.(Text by the editors)&#160;Contents&#160;Round Trip to HadesAn Introductory Tour - By: Gunnel Ekroth and Ingela Nilsson&#160;Travels to the BeyondA Guide - By: Fritz Graf&#160;Hades, Homer and the HittitesThe Cultic-Cultural Context of Odysseus’ ‘Round Trip’ to the Underworld - By: Gunnel Ekroth&#160;Divine Bondage and Katabaseis in Hesiod’s TheogonyBy: Ivana Petrovic and Andrej Petrovic&#160;Introducing Oneself in HadesTwo ‘Orphic’ Formulas Reconsidered - By: Scott Scullion&#160;Pathein and Mathein in the Descents to HadesBy: Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui&#160;From Alkestis to ArchidikeThessalian Attitudes to Death and the Afterlife - By: Sofia Kravaritou and Maria Stamatopoulou&#160;Round Trip to HadesHerakles’ Advice and Directions - By: Annie Verbanck-Piérard&#160;Hades in Hellenistic Philosophy (The Early Academy and Stoicism)By: Adrian Mihai&#160;Following the Dead to the UnderworldAn Archaeological Approach to Graeco-Roman Death Oracles - By: Wiebke Friese&#160;The Sounds of KatabasisBellowing, Roaring, and Hissing at the Crossing of Impervious Boundaries - By: Pierre Bonnechere&#160;Down There and Back AgainVariations on the Katabasis Theme in Lucian - By: Heinz-Günther Nesselrath&#160;From Hades to HellChristian Visions of the Underworld (2nd–5th centuries ce) - By: Zissis D. Ainalis&#160;The Virgin in HadesBy: Thomas Arentzen&#160;Why did Hades Become Beautiful in Byzantine Art?By: Henry Maguire&#160;Hades Meets LazarusThe Literary Katabasis in Twelfth-Century Byzantium - By: Ingela Nilsson&#160;“Heaven for Climate, Hell for Company”Byzantine Satirical Katabaseis - By: Przemysław Marciniak&#160;Many (Un)Happy ReturnsAncient Greek Concepts of a Return from Death and Their Later Counterparts - By: Sarah Iles Johnston&#160;EpilogueBelow the Tree of Life - By: Eric Cullhed and Sigrid Schottenius Cullhed