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The work's consideration on the punishments of Hell is twofold, analyzing the Poena Sensus (pain of the senses) and Poena Damni (pain of the loss of Heaven). [1] The first three days' meditations treat the Poena Sensus, specifically focusing on 1. the prison of Hell, 2. the fire of Hell, and 3. the company of the Damned.
In Greek mythology, Poena or Poine (Ancient Greek: Ποινή, romanized: Poinḗ, lit. 'recompense, punishment') is the spirit of punishment [ 1 ] and the attendant of punishment to Nemesis , [ 2 ] the goddess of divine retribution.
The First Death is a book by Dimitris Lyacos.It is the third part of the Poena Damni trilogy. The book is a fictional rendering of a poem that is translated by an inmate with the use of a dictionary he finds available in the library of the prison he is detained. [1]
With the People from the Bridge follows the main line of narrative of Z213: Exit, the first book of the Poena Damni trilogy. The work opens with a first-person account of the narrator of Z213: Exit, who recounts his arrival at a derelict train station named Nichtovo [7] in search of a place where he has been told, an improvised performance is being staged by, what appears to be, a band of ...
Dimitris Lyacos (Greek: Δημήτρης Λυάκος; born 19 October 1966) is a contemporary Greek writer.He is the author of the Poena Damni trilogy. Lyacos's work is characterised by its genre-defying form [1] and the avant-garde [2] combination of themes from literary tradition with elements from ritual, religion, philosophy and anthropology.
Hieronymus Bosch: Visions of the Hereafter (detail); depicting hell (between circa 1490–1516). Damnation (from Latin damnatio) is the concept of divine punishment and torment in an afterlife for sins that were committed, or in some cases, good actions not done on Earth.
In The Last Chronicle of Barset (1867), by Anthony Trollope, after the sudden death of the Bishop's wife, the Archdeacon describes De mortuis as a proverb "founded in humbug" that only need be followed in public and is unable to bring himself to adopt "the namby-pamby every-day decency of speaking well of one of whom he had ever thought ill."
A penitent confessing his sins in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church of the Bernardines in Lviv, Ukraine. A mortal sin (Latin: peccātum mortāle), in Christian theology, is a gravely sinful act which can lead to damnation if a person does not repent of the sin before death.