Judgment of souls after death
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
judgement · the judgment of the dead · the trial
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Consolatio ad Apollonium (Greek)
Deliberating on this with myself before I received your advice, I have constituted my sons judges, Minos and Rhadamanthus from Asia, and Aeacus from Europe;
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Gorgias
The posthumous trial in which naked souls are judged by Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, and Minos and sent to the Isles of the Blest or Tartarus.
and I make it a reproach to you, that you will not be able to deliver yourself when your trial comes and the judgement of which I told you just now;
Now many, said he, who have wicked souls are clad in fair bodies and ancestry and wealth, and at their judgement appear many witnesses to testify that their lives have been just.
and if he was fat, it will be fat too after his death, and so on for the rest;
Consolatio ad Apollonium
The mythic event, recounted by Socrates, in which Jupiter reforms the corrupt and biased judgment of the dead by removing foreknowledge of death and worldly trappings from both judges and souls, and institutes his three sons as judges presiding over the road dividing the fortunate islands from Tartarus.
Deliberating on this with myself before I received your advice, I have constituted my sons judges, Minos and Rhadamanthus from Asia, and Aeacus from Europe;