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The Greek Afterlife II CLAS-E 128 Harvard Extension School Oct. 15th,2007
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The Chthonic Deities Demeter (Ceres) Kore (Persephone. Proserpina) Hades (Pluto) Orpheus Dionysus Hecate Hermes (Mercury) the Erinyes or Furies (used for curses)
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Persephone and Hades. Tondo of an Attic red- figured kylix, ca. 440-430 BC. Said to be from Vulci.
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Demeter (Ceres) Central to the festival of the Chthonia Myth of Demeter and Persephone Homeric Hymn to Demeter The Eleusinian Mysteries
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Orpheus and Orphism Associated with ThraceAssociated with Thrace Information from the Rhapsodies, a Hellenistic compilation of Orphica ca. 3rd c en BCEInformation from the Rhapsodies, a Hellenistic compilation of Orphica ca. 3rd c en BCE The Orphic TheogonyThe Orphic Theogony
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Mosaico pavimentale romano, da Palermo. Museo archeologico regionale di Palermo, Museo archeologico regionalePalermo
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Museum Christian- Byzantine, Athens
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The Death of Orpheus, by Albrecht Durer
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Hans Leu, Orpheus und die Tiere, 1519
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Head of Orpheus by Gustave Moreau, 1865
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Orfeo ed Euridice, by Federico Cervelli
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Nicholas Poussin, Orphée et Eurydice. 1854.
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Frederic Leighton, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1864
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John William Waterhouse, Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus
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Engraving by Regius for Ovid Metamorphoses, Bk 10
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