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Often appears with: the fear of death · punishment and rewards · moral responsibility · justice as a virtue · immortality of the soul · funeral rites and burial · afterlife judgment
Usually: narrative (1) · confronting death (1) · reverence (1)
“Him they told to look and listen, as he was to be their messenger to men from the world below.” Plato, The Republic · observation
Er, the soldier Armenius’s son, is resurrected after ten days to describe judgment: the just ascend by a heavenly way, the unjust descend, and punishments and rewards proceed in proportion to deeds.
and the evils which you attributed to the unfortunate just, do really fall in the end on the unjust, although, as you implied, their sufferings are better veiled in silence. But all the blessings of this present life are as nothing when compared with those which await good men after death. ‘I should like to hear about them.’ Come, then, and I will tell you the story of Er, the son of Armenius, a valiant man. He was …