CLA 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Aeneid, Maritsa, Anchises
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Pluto (dis), the enricher ; great wealth from within the earth in minerals and agriculture. Soul is associated with breath of life that leaves the material body upon death: gk. psyche, lat. anima = breath, soul, our souls retain air-like nature after death; though they look like us, they have no substance. The athenian festival of the anthesteria (in spring) Similar to our halloween, the night before all saints" day. Odysseus visits death"s realm: beginning of odysseus" journey to the underworld. Souls elsewhere in the odyssey are described as bats squeaking and swooping about: a very, very few souls of great heroes get a happier afterlife somewhere at the edge of earth, called elysium or the. Elysium fields: punishment in homer"s hades, minos is the arbiter of current problems in hades (the manager, tantalus, who tried to trick the gods into eating his son pelops (cannibalism as awful then as it is now)
