CLA204H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Lake Avernus, Acheron, Lapiths
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Virgil, aenied used homer as a main influence: iliad and odyssey. Odyssey had entrance on the e side of the world, not w: b/c of the sunset, that"s where the sun dies, the place of the dead. Roman myth: aeneas golden bough to be able to return. Aeneas descends to the underworld to meet his dead father, anchises; he needs a. Entrance: lake avernus (terrible smell), near the city of cumae, in campania (close to. The sibyl at cumae (apollo"s love) is aeneas" guide. The river acheron as boundary (not in the odyssey) tradition) committed suicide once she was abandoned), soldiers in the trojan war. Tartarus eternal punishment: tityas, sisyphus, ixion, tantalus and many other (the. The old ferryman charon (also not in the odyssey, but otherwise present in the gr. Elysium heroes who died in battler, wise men, poets; orpheus, anchises. Image = hermes, who is in between charon the ferryman and a dead woman.
