Discourse to the Greeks Concerning Hades
(c. 220?)
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Discourse to the Greeks concerning Hades has been erroneously attributed to the Jewish historian Josephus since at least the 9th century, an attribution which continues today mainly on the strength of its inclusion in William Whiston's translation of Josephus' works, though even in antiquity some challenged this attribution. Scholars now believe it to be the work of Hippolytus of Rome; his Against Plato, on the Cause of the Universe is almost identical to the Discourse except for the final paragraph of the latter work.

The work puts forward a Christian view of eternal judgement, the resurrection, and the afterlife, with a decription of Hades (seen here, as in antiquity, as the "place of the dead" rather than the current understanding of "hell"). The author specifically contrasts the Christian view with the Greek understanding, dismissing the latter.

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