CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Clytemnestra, Lapiths, Oeagrus
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Lecture 12 myths of death (p 292 -322) The greeks didn"t believe in the inevitability of death, and blamed it on external forces. Recall: hermes psychopompos: soul guide , hermes is responsible for leading the lost souls to hades. Hades: the unseen one , rules over all the dead in the underworld. Traditionally, the soul was defined as the breath, the invisible, barely tangible element that animates the living body. And the ability to breathe distinguished the living from the dead. Odyssey, which was written in the 8th century bc. In the odyssey, odysseus described his journey to the other world, the banquet given by the king of phaeacia, and circe"s instructions for him to seek advice from the ghost of tiresias before returning home. The three judges of the underworld are minos, rhadamanthys, and aeacus. The four sinners of the underworld are tantalus, who cooked and served his son as a course;
