CLAS 170 Lecture 11: The Afterlife
23 Oct 2017
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Section 0201: the greeks imagined the underworld, the realm of hades, as a hollow place inside the earth; therefore the earth was both the womb and the tomb of humans. The text says that aeneas is guided down to the underworld by a priestess, which is contradictory with the greek hierarchical system, where men rule and govern. So, aeneas" journey can be interpreted to going back into the womb, because in the end, after a person dies, he first crosses over the. Styx river and then after being judged, passes onto the elysian fields. Just like how humans came from the female womb, after death, they return to an area that resembles the female womb: like many of the characters in greek myth, hades has often been confused with his. Hades, however, is a very different character from the devil.
