Desde as trevas luminosas da morte

Abstract

The Greeks and Romans believe that there was a survival in underground locations: Hades, for the first, Orco or Hell for the seconds, an existence that is not happy, but is a sign of distress. On the other hand, gained roots in Greek thought the existence of the Champs Elysée, from Homer and that Hesiod identified with the Isles of the Blessed. With the Romans, the Greek vision of paradise came to identify with the underworld of Orco where the shadows of the dead, virtuous in life, enjoyed a happiness forever, a vision that gained mainly through the Dream of Scipio, insert in Book VI of the treaty Ciceronian the Republic. Our reflexion on the death will assume this hopeful position and set up essentially in one of its most harrowing demonstrations, the fratricide.