CLAS104 Quiz: Summary - Quiz2 (highlighted names and inclass stories)
11 Mar 2015
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Hades and afterlife: homer"s view (life is bleak, death is worse! It starts with odysseus telling the phaeacians and king alcinous of his visit to the underworld. He wanted to see the seer tiresias and consult him about how to reach his home: location: i. ii. iii. iv. Odysseus, stuck on island of aeaea for a year, home of. Circe advised him to go to underworld and consult. Not a cave going down (usually what ppl picture) one end/edge of the world, go across the ocean. Profs theory, from hesiod: tartarus = underworld, under the world, but stretches out and opens up b) Inhabitants: witless shades (except tiresias, empty, flitting shades: no bodies, no consciousness, persephone has given him [tiresias] wisdom, him alone, o spilled blood, shades came and drunk blood, then they could talk ii. The unburied (elpenor: first to meet o. night before o set sail to underworld.
