CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Metanira, Nanny, Etiology

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

Document Summary

Lecture 16 views of life after death hades. For his punishment tantalus is in tartarus forever, he is in a pool of clean water with food hanging above his head. When he goes to drink the water dissipates and when he goes to eat the food disappears: he is constantly stuck. The elysian fields are the place of eternal piece. In many ways hades is portrayed as a shepherd the shepherd of the deaf: his dog is the cerberus. Eldest of zeus and poseidon: hades got the short end of the stick no one wants to run the underworld. Hades is not the devil : hades is not evil he just fulfills an unpopular job. Persephone was one of zeus"s daughters: zeus mated with demeter life force of the earth. Persephone is their daughter and zeus allows her to marry hades. He pulls her onto his chariot and they ride together into the.