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  2. Hell Opened to Christians - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Poena - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. The First Death - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Dimitris Lyacos - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. With the People from the Bridge - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Z213: Exit - Wikipedia

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    Poena Damni Z213: Exit uses the device of the palimpsest to convey the various layers of its mythical, historical, and fictional content. [ 23 ] Beginning in medias res , [ 25 ] [ 26 ] it builds a sort of unsolvable lore around its narrator/protagonist, alternating poetry and prose in order to represent his inner thoughts and experiences. [ 25 ]

  8. Until the Victim Becomes our Own - Wikipedia

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    Until the Victim Becomes our Own is a composite novel by Greek author Dimitris Lyacos. [1] Conceived as the book "zeroth" of the Poena Damni trilogy the book explores bloodshed as the building-block in the formation of society and the eventual place of the individual in a world "permeated by institutionalized violence."

  9. Chinvat Bridge - Wikipedia

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    Dimitris Lyacos's second part of the trilogy Poena Damni With the People from the Bridge alludes to the Chinvat Bridge. In the book a bridge functions as part of the setting of a makeshift performance but also as a narrative element that connects the world of the living with the world of the dead.