CLSC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Mount Olympus
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Rule, don"t turn back unil you are out in sunshine. They leave, right when he steps out he turns around but she isn"t out yet so she ends up going back to the underworld: goes to mourning for 3 years: abstains from women. Men joins him and they abstain from wife and girlfriends: most common story why he dies. Women pissed of and they tear him apart. Floaing to island of lesbos and washes up ashore. Snake can"t hear him is ready to chomp head. Ater he is dead, he rejoins his wife in hades: variance of his death. One zeus toast him with thunderbolt because he reveals things to mortals that haven"t been said before. He is teaching men mystery that he won"t teach the women. Some his head buried where he was killed or another he is buried in mount. Symbol: soma sema (the body is a symbol)
