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Bonnie MacLachlan, « Ritual Katábasis and the Comic », Cahiers des études anciennes, ID : 10670/1.mvzauf
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In the Greek West participants in a ritual katábasis frequently engaged in behaviour with comic overtones. In the following discussion I view these rituals of descent more broadly than as a visit to the Underworld or a rehearsal of death. I understand these catabatic rites to offer an « otherworld » experience through contact with chthonic divinities. Moreover, material and textual evidence indicates that for this population a katábasis could create the disposition to laugh, and I explore som...