CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Radiance, Homeric Hymns, Odysseus
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Tantalus: had a party for the gods and served up his son pelops, (origin of pelopponese). Demeter did not realize what she was being her and ended up eating part of the shoulder of pelops. The gods reformed him and gave him and ivory shoulder, and condemned tantalus to hades. They set him in a pool of water, that would recede whenever he tried to drink from it. A tree above him was full of fruit, but when he reached for it, it would move beyond his grasp he (cid:449)as (cid:862)ta(cid:374)talized(cid:863) He was strapped to a wheel torture device forever, where the punishment suited the crime. Wheels were used in erotic magic to help win love using a bird strapped to it. Others are promised a different sort of treatment in the underworld: prophecy of the old man of the sea: menelaus (cid:272)o(cid:373)es ho(cid:373)e too late to p(cid:396)e(cid:448)e(cid:374)t o(cid:396) a(cid:448)e(cid:374)ge his (cid:271)(cid:396)othe(cid:396)"s murder.
