STELNICK Eu.V. “Charon’s Garden” as a Byzantine folklore model of netherworld
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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2012.2.22
Stelnick Eugeny Victorovich
Post-graduate student, Department of Archeology and Foreign History,
Volgograd State University
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Abstract. The article deals with the attempt to reconstruct folk Byzantine ideas of netherworld. Byzantine folk ideas of the afterworld are considered as a synthesis of oriental, biblical and folk traditions.
Key words: Byzantine Empire, folk religionism, thanatology, Charon, garden, folklore.
“Charon’s Garden” as a Byzantine folklore model of netherworld by STELNICK Eu.V. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.