Over de Styx. Grieken, Romeinen en de Onderwereld.
PIETERS, M., and P. de RYNCK, (ed.),
Language: Dutch
Published by Singel Uitgeverijen, 2003
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Atheneum-Polak & Van Gennep, Amsterdam, 2003. 232p. Paperback. Spine with light reading traces. 'Onzekerheden over het leven na de dood zijn van alle tijden, zo blijkt uit het boek Over de Styx, geschreven door Mark Pieters en Patrick de Rynk. Het is een inventarisatie van wat de Grieken en Romeinen dachten over de onderwereld aan gene zijde van de doodsrivier de Styx, uitgebracht ter gelegenheid van de Boekenweek met het thema leven en dood. Het boek is na een beknopte inleiding alfabetisch geordend: van de Acheron, een grenswater van de onderwereld, tot Zieltje, het doodsbedgedicht van de Romeinse keizer Hadrianus. Alle lemma's zijn voorzien van uitleg en toepasselijke citaten uit de klassieke literatuur. Die encyclopedische opsomming is, zou je kunnen denken, slechts het materiaal voor een écht boek, een studie die alles uitlegt. Maar omdat het onderwerp per definitie bestaat uit onzekerheid en verwarring, zou zo'n beschouwing onvermijdelijk bestaan uit een bijna onleesbare opsomming van nuances, enerzijdsen, niettemins en anderzijdsen. Over de Styx is heel goed van a tot z te lezen. De bekende, maar ook de vele onbekende citaten, vaak in opvallend fraaie vertalingen, noden via de uitvoerige bibliografie tot verder lezen in de Griekse en Romeinse literatuur. Het interessantst zijn de verhalen over mensen die afdaalden naar de onderwereld en weer terugkwamen. Zoals Odysseus, die in de onderwereld een ontmoeting had met Achilles. De Homerische held van Troje was ooit ondergedompeld in de Styx om onsterfelijk te zijn, maar werd vastgehouden bij zijn hiel, de kwetsbare plek die hem uiteindelijk fataal werd. De gedode Achilles is in de onderwereld dan wel niet helemaal dood, maar klaagt zijn nood: 'Liever deed ik op aarde als dagloner dienst bij een vreemde [.] dan over alle doden en schimmen als koning te heersen.' (KASPER JANSEN in NRC-next 24.03.2003).…
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- Title
- Over de Styx. Grieken, Romeinen en de Onderwereld.
- Author
- PIETERS, M., and P. de RYNCK, (ed.),
- Publisher
- Singel Uitgeverijen
- Publication year
- 2003
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- Dutch
- ISBN 10
- 9025301835
- ISBN 13
- 9789025301835
Van de rivieren uit de onderwereld is de gehate Styx het bekendste geworden, mede dankzij de veerman Charon, die met zijn gammele schuit de schimmen overzette. Daarna werd beslist waar men heen ging: wie geluk had mocht naar de Elyseïsche Velden, sommige anderen wachtte een heel scala aan gruwelijke straffen. Goden legden hun eden af bij de doodsrivier, mensen huiverden al bij de naam. Een handvol helden was het vergund levend af te dalen, de monsterlijke hond Cerberus te ontwijken en terug te keren, zoals Aeneas, Orpheus, Herakles, Odysseus en meesterbedrieger Sisyphus.
In 'Over de Styx' vertellen vele passages uit de klassieke literatuur over de Onderwereld: de ingang, de ligging en plattegrond, de goddelijke machthebbers en de rechters, de gestraften, de levende bezoekers en ja, de ongelovigen. De opzet van het boek is alfabetisch op trefwoorden, zoals bij het succesvolle 'Van alfa tot omega' (meer dan 10.000 ex. van verkocht); de lezer bepaalt zelf waar hij begint: bij Antigone of Zieltje, bij Orpheus, Schim, Eed, Tantalus, Veerman, Cerberus, Styx, Gelukzaligen etc.
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Van de rivieren uit de onderwereld is de gehate Styx het bekendste geworden, mede dankzij de veerman Charon, die met zijn gammele schuit de schimmen overzette. Daarna werd beslist waar men heen ging: wie geluk had mocht naar de Elyseïsche Velden, sommige anderen wachtte een heel scala aan gruwelijke straffen. Goden legden hun eden af bij de doodsrivier, mensen huiverden al bij de naam. Een handvol helden was het vergund levend af te dalen, de monsterlijke hond Cerberus te ontwijken en terug te keren, zoals Aeneas, Orpheus, Herakles, Odysseus en meesterbedrieger Sisyphus.
In 'Over de Styx' vertellen vele passages uit de klassieke literatuur over de Onderwereld: de ingang, de ligging en plattegrond, de goddelijke machthebbers en de rechters, de gestraften, de levende bezoekers en ja, de ongelovigen. De opzet van het boek is alfabetisch op trefwoorden, zoals bij het succesvolle 'Van alfa tot omega' (meer dan 10.000 ex. van verkocht); de lezer bepaalt zelf waar hij begint: bij Antigone of Zieltje, bij Orpheus, Schim, Eed, Tantalus, Veerman, Cerberus, Styx, Gelukzaligen etc.
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Scrinium Classical Antiquity, member of the Dutch Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (NVvA - ILAB), stands for a specialized stock of new, secondhand and antiquarian books about Classical Antiquity. The main theme of our books is Classical Antiquity: texts and commentaries, translations, archeology, philosophy, travel, history, mythology, books for young people, philology, law, reception of classical motives in Middle Ages, Renaissance and our own time and neo-Hellenika (conptemporary Greece), and many more subjects. A more modest quantity of our books concerns countries, civilisations and religious movements on the edges of the classical world: e.g. Egypt, Middle East and Early Christianity.…
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