Classical Mythology

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 339 cepted literally? Is Er's story an allegory filled with profound symbols hiding t ...

340 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS mitting Aeneas to keep them in sight as he followed. When they approached the foul odor comi ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 341 snatched his sword and threatened them with his drawn blade as they ap- proached. ...

342 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS why you have come but answer from there, do not take another step. This is the place of the ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 343 Evadne, Pasiphaë, and with them Laodamia and Caeneus, who had been changed into a ...

344 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld. By Jan Brueghel the Elder (1568-1625); oil on canvas ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 345 sacred gates open wide, turning with strident horror on their creaking hinges. Do ...

346 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS When this had been done and the gift had been given to the goddess, then at last they came t ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 347 on the Italian shore. Give me, give me your right hand, father, do not shrink fro ...

348 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Anchises then leads Aeneas and the Sibyl to a mound from which they can view the souls as th ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 349 Presumably in the cycle of rebirth and reincarnation, the weary chain is ulti- ma ...

350 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS earth after the castration of Uranus; according to others, they are the offspring of Night. ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES^351 The Furies very definitely represent the old moral order of justice within the fr ...

352 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS NOTES Tiresias is the famous seer of the Theban cycle, who holds special prerogatives in th ...

VIEWS OF THE AFTERLIFE: THE REALM OF HADES 353 Sometimes the wheel is on fire. For Ixion's crime, see pp. 602-603. Near its sou ...

CHAPTER 16 ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES ORPHEUS AND EURYDICE Ovid tells the story of how Orpheus lost h ...

ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 355 Spring: Orpheus and Eurydice. By Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863); oil on ...

356 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS of her years, will fall under your power; I ask as a gift her return to me. If the Fates ref ...

ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 357 Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes. Marble relief, Roman copy of a Greek or ...

358 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Phrygian flutes with their curved pipes, the drums, the pounding, and the Bacchic shrieks dr ...