CLASSICS 370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Pamphylia, Sibyl, Anchises
5 Sep 2016
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Unit xi reading notes classical myth: myths of death - encounters with the underworld. The greeks" bleak conception of the afterlife contributed importantly to their conviction that happiness must be achieved in this world the greek view of death. Death was caused by a hostile force from the natural world, from a human, or from the invisible and inexplicable realm of gods, ghosts, magicians, and priests that we call disease. Ancients attributed powers of choice and action to everything that exists and believed that human beings are the victims of these choices. Hades, the unseen one, ruled over all the dead in the dark land. Also called pluto, the enricher from beneath the earth comes minerals and agricultural wealth. Polydegmon, receiver of many and polysexmos, host to many greeks often regarded hades as a god too dangerous to call by his real name. The romans called the death god"s realm orcus, probably means the place that confines .
