CLST 203 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cocytus, Odysseus, Proserpina

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 203
• Professor: Graeme Ward

Document Summary

Odysseus travels to the underworld to consult the ghost of tiresias, a prophet from thebes. Contacts tiresias through instructions by circe: the ends of the world by oceanus. Persephone allowed tiresias to keep reason all mortals go to the underworld. Odysseus talks to tiresias, and his mother dead from grief. The parade of the dead who walk by odysseus features famous heroes and friends: Agamemnon who died by his wife tells odysseus not to trust people. Achilles tells odysseus he would rather be alive than important person in death. Ajax who odysseus wants to speak to, refuses to speak to him. Ixion a king of thessaly who killed his father in law zeus invites ixion to purify himself at hearth, but tries to rape hera, turned on wheel eternally. Tityus a giant and a son of zeus was set on leto by hera to try rape her.