CLAS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Maenad

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLAS 2000
• Professor: John Walsh

Document Summary

Their love is threatened by a satyr o o. She is chased satyr and falls into a pit of venomous snakes. Plays the music for the dog cerberus falls asleep. Uses the lyre to play a song to hades. Power of his music is so great that if sotens the heart of. Tries to encourage hades to give back eurydice. Must not look back at her unil you are out of the underworld. And he looks back ater a few seconds. And they lock eyes and she is taken back into the underworld to. Given one instrucion to not look back at the city, and they do. Sings sad songs and rejects all accompany from women. In his grief and rejecion of sexuality comes into contact with the maenads. Head was drited out to river and to sea and coninued singing.