CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Human Frailty, Nanny, Origin Myth

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Drinking at the river lethe of forgefulness- so they forget their past lives. Largely based on virgil an other sources, ancients construct in their mind realisic maps of the underworld. Many places boasted caves that were presumed entrances to the underworld. Tormening a young man named orestes tormented for the murder of his own mother. Like prometheus, tormented as having his liver pecked out. Ixion that bold arrogant man who coupled with image of hera against the instrucions of zeus. Father of niobe arrogant, eurbisic, boasful queen who brought ruin of her own children. In anger of her boast, the gods killed all her children. Tantalus fed the gods his own son pelops. Demeter ate it, and as a punishment for this tantalus. Is tormented for all eternity stands in a beauiful pool of refreshing water, and everyime he bends his head to drink it it recedes.