CLAS 1P95 Lecture 10: CLAS Seminar 10
19 Feb 2016
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In homer"s vision of death all humans, upon their inevitable deaths, must travel to the. They will spend the rest of eternity within the underworld, which is ruled by hades and persephone. There are different regions of the underworld where mortals will go depending on how they have lived their lives on earth. If they have been impious or malevolent as humans they will endure particularly horrible afterlives. Homer"s depiction of death/afterlife is generally very gloomy. Upon a mortal"s death their soul leaves their body and travels to the. Underworld where it takes on the image of the person that it left. The gods play a prominent role in the death of mortals and their experience in the afterlife. First of all, hades (and persephone) rule the underworld, which is the place that mortals go when they die. Therefore, the gods govern their very experience of death/afterlife.
