Acheron: Myths and Traditions for the door of the ancient Underworld

Acheron: Myths and Traditions for the door of the ancient Underworld

Death is an integral part of people's lives. Paramythia is the place, where according to ancient mythology, death had a special presence. The "other world" intersects with the real one at one point. A small provincial town in Epirus is the benchmark of metaphysical or non-physical world to ancient Greek mythology and philosophy, but also for the whole of Western civilization born from it. What does this mean today? What is the content of the approach to death in ancient Greek mythology, which survives until today in the folk tradition, especially in the region of Epirus? The work argues that unlike the modern approach of repelling the reality of death, the approach of ancient Greek mythology that reaches up to modern popular culture, which suggests a courageous, head-on confrontation, which not only paralyses life but also honors, illuminates and gives more substantial content.