CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Orfeu, Umbanda, Cicones
24 Oct 2014
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The underworld is not the same for everyone. Vivid geography and set places for souls. Plays the lyre associated with apollo. Orpheus is the first true musician first great artist. Not greek: he is known to come from thrace. Greeks saw it as a wild, strange place. This is where the amazons came from. His most prominent myth is about his interaction with eurydice. E is o"s wife, she is bitten by a snake and dies (similar to persephone pulled down by death when picking flowers) In his mourning, he stops playing music, and is destroyed by roaming maenads. Earth becomes unhappy because no one can dance anymore. He decides he wasn"t to try to go down himself. Great greek heroes are also expected to try and go down and come back ultimate act of a mortal hero. Goes down to hades, plays a hymn to persephone to let e go.
