The Seba library treats Bathun in 2 passages, across 1 author (including Hillman, James).
In the library
2 passages
Marcovich emphasizes the difference between depth and the horizontal direction on the earth's surfaces. Soul is not in the surface of things, the superficialities, but reaches down into hidden depths, a region which also refers to Hades and death.
This passage deploys Marcovich's philological analysis of 'bathun' to ground Hillman's core argument that soul's depth is categorically distinct from surface existence, aligning psychic interiority with the underworld.
The index entry for 'bathun' in 'The Dream and the Underworld' confirms the term's place within Hillman's systematic vocabulary linking Heraclitean depth to the underworld perspective.
Hillman, James, The Dream and the Underworld, 1979supporting