CLST 203 Lecture 13: CLST 203 Lecture 13 (Feb 27)
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Clst 203 lecture 13 february 27th. There is no form sense of it, even the roman and greeks did not know. Mystery cults help experience parts of the afterlife or give them hope of one. Odysseus travels to underworld to consult ghost of tiresias (57-64) At the ends of the world, by oceanus. Cir(cid:272)e: (cid:862)you (cid:373)ust go to the house of hades a(cid:374)d of dread persepho(cid:374)e to (cid:272)o(cid:374)sult the ghost of the blind theban prophet tiresias, whose reason is still unshaken. Persepho(cid:374)e left his u(cid:374)dersta(cid:374)di(cid:374)g e(cid:448)e(cid:374) i(cid:374) death, (cid:271)ut the other ghosts flit a(cid:271)out ai(cid:373)lessl(cid:455). (cid:863) Here perimedes and eurylochus held the victims, while i drew my sword and dug the trench a cubit each way. Spirits come to him, he is not going to them. Ghosts drink blood from trench to speak. (cid:862)"m(cid:455) so(cid:374)," she a(cid:374)s(cid:449)ered, "(cid:373)ost ill-fated of all mankind, it is not persephone that is beguiling you, but all people are like this when they are dead.