CLAS104 Lecture 14: N) The Afterlife
3 Apr 2016
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The eye of the sun can never lash his rays through the dark and bring them light an endless, deadly night overhands those wretched men. Circe (a minor goddess) tells odysseus, if you want to get home, he needs to go to the underworld to consult a prophet (tiresias) who had already died. In order to get to the underworld, he would need to cross oceanus. Entrance to the underworld is across a body of water (far north) (cimmerians) He thinks its in the far north b/c that"s where the sun doesn"t shine: inhabitants, witless shades: one rule there is, the famous seer explained, and simple for me to say and you to learn. Any one of the ghosts you let approach the blood will speak the truth to you. Anyone you refuse will turn and fade away. Witless shades: spirits or shadows of their formal self that don"t have their abiliies.
