CLASSICS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Komos, Hieros Gamos, Dionysian Mysteries
17 Sep 2016
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Hades/plouton no myths, not much character. Hades darker, earlier (oldest name: the unseen one / he who shall not be named", tartarus, erebus underworld, titans dwell in tartarus. Eventually gets the name plouton later concept: wealthy one , latin variant of pluto. Roman name: dis or pluto name of the god and his kingdom. Hades could mean the god or the actual place of the underworld. Daughter of rhea and cronos: sister of zeus and hades. Assumed as father, default but not quite usre. Cp 123: i begin to sing of rich-haired demeter, terrible goddess, of her and her slender-ankled daughter whom hades took away, given to him by all-seeing zeus the loud-thunderer. This is a metaphor for going down into the underworld, metaphor for dying persephone is dead, she has been killed via abduction. Mortals do not go down into the underworld and come back up.
