CLASSIC 45A Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sea Pictures, Stoicism, Cronus
15 Nov 2017
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Pictures: zeus and chthonian zeus, picture of zeus depicted next to hades, they look quite similar: old and bearded, hades and cerberus, robe covers most of body except for upper left half. Image of royalty: doesn"t seem threatening, what makes him look threatening and instills fear is the dog: cerberus. 11: odysseus opens the ground and finds the underworld. Pictures: hades and persephone, hades is offering something, demeter, persephone, and hades are one entity, hades (?) and cornucopia, cornucopia shows off his wealth. Information may not be the same from all sources; memorize the names. In homer: in the west, in the underworld, in the north: most often: under the earth. He is associated with caves, often imagined as entrances to the underworld. In the photo, white blends in with the body (differentiation doesn"t matter in. Is not ubiquitous: either way it sucks to be dead, it"s not something one wants or longs for.
