Lieber mit Homer irren'? Scheinbar unmogliche Autopsien in den Totenbegegnungen fruhkaiserzeitlicher Epik

This monograph examines the literary representation of encounters between the living and the dead in Homer and the Roman epic poets of the early imperial period. The focus is on one particular situation: a witness to the afterlife (e.g. Odysseus or the Sibyl) who narrates encounters with the dead that he or she cannot (it would appear) actually have seen. This insufficiently studied and intriguing...