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1 The Greek Afterlife II CLAS-E 128 Harvard Extension School Oct. 15th,2007

2 The Chthonic Deities Demeter (Ceres) Kore (Persephone. Proserpina) Hades (Pluto) Orpheus Dionysus Hecate Hermes (Mercury) the Erinyes or Furies (used for curses)

3 Persephone and Hades. Tondo of an Attic red- figured kylix, ca. 440-430 BC. Said to be from Vulci.

4 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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14 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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16 Mosaico pavimentale romano, da Palermo. Museo archeologico regionale di Palermo, Museo archeologico regionalePalermo

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20 Museum Christian- Byzantine, Athens

21 The Death of Orpheus, by Albrecht Durer

22 Hans Leu, Orpheus und die Tiere, 1519

23 Head of Orpheus by Gustave Moreau, 1865

24 Orfeo ed Euridice, by Federico Cervelli

25 Nicholas Poussin, Orphée et Eurydice. 1854.

26 Frederic Leighton, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1864

27 John William Waterhouse, Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus

28 Engraving by Regius for Ovid Metamorphoses, Bk 10

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