Classical Mythology
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 ...
ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 359 Orpheus and Eurydice, by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Scenic model, 1948 ...
360 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS and behavior. Variations and inconsistencies in the tradition make it difficult to know this ...
ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES^361 and mysteries are by their very nature Dionysiac. Other elements in th ...
362 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS whose doctrine was communicated in sacred writings attributed to him and be- lieved to be mu ...
ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 363 ning and middle and end of all things. Eventually Zeus mated with Kore ...
364 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS neath St. Peter's basilica in the Vatican and the fourth-century vault mosaics in the church ...
ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 365 tic of Attis/' are the words of one hymn. Like the Eleusinian mysterie ...
366 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Her attributes included a musical instrument (the sistrum, a kind of rattle), a breast-shape ...
ORPHEUS AND ORPHISM: MYSTERY RELIGIONS IN ROMAN TIMES 367 rience) was initiated three times into the mysteries of Isis and Serap ...
368 THE MYTHS OF CREATION: THE GODS Meyer, Marvin W., ed. Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions: A Sourcebook. Philadelphia: Uni ...
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