Master of Petersburg

Thomas Eckhardt thomas.eckhardt at uni-bonn.de
Mon Sep 1 12:47:19 CDT 2008


David started going all psychopompous on us...  I am familiar with the 
term from literary criticism. Loosely related are "nekyia" and 
"katabasis", Greek terms for the epic convention of the descent into the 
underworld.

Thomas


Joe Allonby schrieb:
> OK, maybe I'm an idiot. What is "psycopomp"? Is that a new expression you
> kids have today?
>
>   




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