GDES-220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Metempsychosis, Aeneid, Cosmogony

• School: American University
• Department: Art: Graphic Design
• Course: GDES-220
• Professor: Brandon Thompson

Document Summary

Kleos aphithiton = your fate, what will get you an afterlife. Events in this life do not effect what you do in the. Menelaos (married to helen, daughter of zeus), herakles, castor and pollux (twin brothers of. Hellen and catenestra, pollux is immortal and castor is mortal. K(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as the (cid:862)t(cid:449)i(cid:374)s(cid:863)) heroes are allowed to do this and they return. Ganymede (zeus" passi(cid:448)e se(cid:454)ual partner, never grows old) Visit to hades or the underworld = katabasis meaning they go down to the underworld, some. Sleep was also associated with death, they believed that death came from some kind of outside. Thought of death like an outside force that came at you and grabbed you. Hades inhabits the underworld or orcus in latin. Known as the unseen one because he lives in the underworld. To the greeks everything was about choice (but not your choice)