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　　A lively...generously illustrated (Washington Post Book World)

survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religious

leaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West have

visualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, and

inhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.

INTRODUCTION

The Great Below

The Egyptian Book of the Dead

Zoroastrianism

Classical Hades

Platonic Hell

The Roman Empire

Sheol

Gnosticism

Manichaeism

The Early Christians

The Descent into Hell

The Last Judgment

……

    ~Alice K. Turner is a published author. A

published credit of Alice K. Turner is Yoga for Beginners (A

Concise Guide) & Playboy's College Fiction : A Collection of

Contest Winners from the First 21 Years. Alice was also a

contributing editor at Playboy. For many years she was the

magazine’s fiction editor and is the creator of the College Fiction

Contest.

    Donadio & Olson is a full-service literary

agency representing fiction and non-fiction titles. They are

located in New York, New York.

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　　In an arresting journey through the netherworld, Playboy

fiction editor Turner explores the landscape and dynamics of Hell

as envisioned by writers, artists, theologians and thinkers from

Plato and Augustine to Milton, Calvin, Byron and T. S. Eliot.

Starting with the worlds of the dead of the Sumerians, Egyptians,

Zoroastrians, Greeks, Romans and Jews, Turner moves on to the

sketchy biblical basis for Christian Hell and its increasing

importance in thinking about the afterlife. After the fact of Hell

was settled, it was up to writers like Bede, Gregory the Great and

most of all Dante to give the graphic de*ions of an infernal

region where the wicked endure torments. Enlightenment thinkers

like Voltaire poured cold water on the idea of Hell, yet, as Turner

shows, Hell, far from disappearing in the 20th century, has been

one of its central metaphors. Scores of intriguing black-and-white

plates reveal how Bosch, Giotto, William Blake, Michelangelo, Rodin

and others have shaped popular images of the underworld.

(

Publishers Weekly

)Turner, the fiction editor of Playboy

magazine, takes the reader on more of a geographical than a

theological tour of hell. She begins her examination of the concept

of hell in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean societies,

tracing its evolution into that held by the Christian Church. She

considers the devil such a complex subject that he remains

peripheral to her discussion. The study emphasizes the depiction of

hell by such artists as Virgil, Dante, Michelangelo, Milton, and

Blake and the bewildering assortment of hells within the history of

Christianity. Turner remains alert to the humor lurking behind many

depictions of hell, such as in medieval mystery plays. Her

scholarship is thorough but not obtrusive. Suitable for informed

lay readers.

- Richard S. Watts, San Bernardino Cty. Lib.,

Cal.

--(

Library Journal

)

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A lively...generously illustrated (Washington Post Book World) survey of how, over the past four thousand years, religious leaders, artists, writers, and ordinary people in the West have visualized Hell-its location, architecture, purpose, and inhabitants. Illustrations; full-color inserts.