Classical Mythology

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES^319 dies, it remains alone; but if it dies it bears much fruit." In this Greek hymn, the al ...

320 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The Departure of Triptolemus. Attic red-figure cup by Makron, ca. 480 B.C.; height 8V4 in. T ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 321 Hellenic deities, is the inspiration for a kind of worship that is generally desig- nat ...

322 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS to all, without secrecy or initiation or a fundamental mystic philosophy, how- ever religiou ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 323 in remembrance of the episodes described in the Hymn to Demeter. Thus there was a fast ...

324 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS It is difficult to agree with those who assert that Dionysus was completely excluded from th ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 325 THE FESTIVAL OF THE THESMOPHORIA Women generally played a dominant role in the religion ...

326 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and drastic variation of this eternal and universal archetype. The myth's sexual bla- tancy ...

DEMETER AND THE ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES 327 part of the ceremony of the Eleusinian mysteries, namely the partaking of a drink calle ...

CHAPTER 15 VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES HOMER'S BOOK OF THE DEAD The earliest surviving account of the realm of Ha ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 329 But first the soul of my comrade Elpenor came up, for he had not yet been buried ...

330 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS But I remained steadfast where I was until my mother came up and drank the dark blood. Immed ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 331 Hades' realm where spirits without body or sense dwell, shadows of mortals worn o ...

332 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS The Underworld, Apulian red-figure krater by the Underworld painter, ca. 320 B.C.; di- mensi ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 333 And also I saw Sisyphus enduring hard sufferings as he pushed a huge stone; exert ...

334 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and punishment, and Minos presumably acts as a judge among the dead, set- tling their disput ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 335 penalty for each and every sin ten times over, in retribution for the number of t ...

336 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS note; from all eight came a unified harmony. Round about at equal distances sat three others ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 337 whelmed by wealth and similar evils and succumb to acts like those of a tyrant, c ...

338 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS In his fated turn, the soul of Odysseus, who had drawn the last lot, went to choose; remembe ...