CLAS104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Homeric Hymns, Misenus, Anchises

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS104
• Professor: Ronald Kroeker

Document Summary

In post-classical times, terms hades was used by christian authors (dante, milton and church. Ancient greek gods cannot be regarded in the same way as gods in other religions. In classical myths, some heroes were able to achieve a divine statue apart from the gods and were considered to be in an intermediary position between the gods and average mortals in. Proper burial is important issue in the greek world, and all individuals should receive a proper burial, and since elpenor has not been buried, his soul is not at rest and is not accepted into underworld. Sisyphus received this punishment because he sins against the gods. He angered zeus by telling the river-god asophus that he had carried off his daughter aegina, and zeus sent death (thanatos) to get him: sisyphus trapped death in chains and during this time, no humans died. Until ares the god of war freed death and took revenge on sisyphus.