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It was mentioned as containing a story of a man who journeys to the underworld and tells of rewards and punishments in a well-organized system, which influenced St. Augustine's idea of hell.
And a lot of this is informed by writers and not even like biblical scholars, like people like Plato. And a lot of these stories, again, are really, really similar. There's a story from Plato's Republ...
— Episode: Hell! Hell! Hell!
Episode: Hell! Hell! Hell!
It was mentioned as containing a story of a man who journeys to the underworld and tells of rewards and punishments in a well-organized system, which influenced St. Augustine's idea of hell.
And a lot of this is informed by writers and not even like biblical scholars, like people like Plato. And a lot of these stories, again, are really, really similar. There's a story from Plato's Republic where a man named Er, E-R, goes into a coma, journeys through the underworld, and then wakes up and then tells everyone what happened down there.
And this has a lot of reward and punishment included in a really organized system.
And there are a lot of stories really similar to that throughout time that, you know, I don't know if they were based on Plato or the Republic or just like we've been talking about, sort of overlap and incestuous.
He directly influenced St. Augustine.
And Augustine definitely influenced some of these later guys like Drithelm and Tundale. And their idea of hell, but Augustine was influenced by Plato.