CLSA 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Odysseus, Minos, Anthesteria
30 Jul 2016
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No memory will be left of you, no regret when you are gone. Death"s realm, you will be wafted on a ghost"s fluttering wings, one of the black dead. The soul (psyche) survives after death as an image (eidolon) Ghosts bodiless spirits that lead a shadowy existence in the underworld. Dangerous, especially if not properly laid through burial rituals, envious of the living, and seeking revenge. The most valuable possessions were buried with the dead, the people left behind wore dark clothes, mourning women were scratching their faces and breasts. Ghosts were regarded as easily confused, and likely to lose their way to the underworld. Hermes, the phychopompos, led them (anthesteria) halloween. Many greek intellectuals questioned the notion of the soul surviving as a ghostly shadow in hades" realm (epicurus) The odyssey: odysseus, instructed by circe goes to the underworld to seek advice from tiresias in order to return home.
