CLASS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cyclops, Atreus, Proserpina
9 May 2016
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Hiera - scared object for warship of demeter. Metempsychosis - belif in trasmision of the soul. Arete - heroic excellance teomachies - battle of the gods. Athloi - labour evacato - summon to or away lupa - female wolf. Eumenides - kindly ones katabasis- decent autochthonous- from earth xenia- guest friendship argo- swift. Demeter - harvest, sacred law, cycle of life and death. Hades- son of kronus and rhae, king of dead and wealth (plouton), chthonian. Rivers- styx (hate), acheron (woe), lethe (forge tfullness), cocytos (waling) and. Tantalus - holds a canabalisic feast to trick zeus, punished by having food forever out of reach. Tried to get the gods to eat his son pelops. Sisyphus- betrayed the secrets of zeus, therefore forever pushing a rck up a montiain. Hermes psychopompos - guides dead to the underworld . Orpheus- tries to rescue wife from unerworld but looks behind him therby killing her.
