Death & the afterlife
What happens after death: resurrection, judgment, purgatory, and the soul's journey in poetry and philosophy.
Key terms: θάνατος (thanatos), ἀνάστασις (anastasis), mors, infernus, purgatorium — the Day 14 terms index will link each term to its occurrences across the corpus.
- On the Resurrection of the Dead
- Session XXV (1563): Decree Concerning Purgatory
- Holy Sonnets
- Paradise Lost
- De Rerum Natura
Athenagoras
Council of Trent
John Donne
John Milton
Lucretius