1. Chapter 12 Lecture Two of Two Opheus and Orphism Plato’s Myth of Er Aeneas's Descent ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

2. ORPHEUS AND EURYDICÊ ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

3. Orpheus and Eurydicê Orpheus the singer Loses his intended Eurydicê at their wedding Loses her again on the way out of Hades Torn apart by Maenads – Refused Dionysus’s cult or refused women followers or refused women in general ? ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

4. Fig. 12.3 Orpheus in Thrace ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. bpk, Berlin/Antikensammlung, Staatliche Museen/Johannes Laurentius/Art Resource, New York

5. ORPHISM ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

6. Orphism Collection of writings (the Orphic Hymns) Religious cosmology Brought followers a better afterlife ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

7. Orphism ChronosZeus AetherDemeter ChaosPersephonê ErebusDionysus (Zagreus) PhanesPallas NyxTitans Gaea and Uranus Cronus ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

8. Orphism Cosmology to explain human nature – Sôma sêma Metempsychosis – Cycle can be broken – Ascetic purity – Magic formulas Influence from Shamanism Influence on Pythagoras, Plato, and early Christians ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

9. Plato’s Myth of Er Philosophical, contrived myth Er comes back from the afterlife and describes what he experienced After 1000 years or torment or bliss, souls return to the earth Choose their next lives with the help of the Fates ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

10. Fig. 12.4 Charon and Hermes. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich

11. AENEAS’S DESCENT INTO THE UNDERWORLD Vergil's Aeneid ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

12. Aeneas’s Descent AnchisesIxion Lake AvernusCentaurs Sibyl of CumaeElysium Hecatê Acheron Charon Tartarus ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

13. Perspective 12.2 Michelangelo's The Sybil of Cumae. The myth was allegorized into a philosophical/religious account of the relationship between the body and the soul. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. Vatican Museums; Scala/Art Resource, New York

14. Fig. 12.5 Ares and Hermes Hold Ixion ©2012 Pearson Education Inc. British Museum, London; © Trustees of the British Museum / Art Resource, New York

15. PERSPECTIVE 12.3 Dante's Inferno ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

16. Dante's Inferno The poet Dante re-imagines the ancient myths of the underworld into a Christian context. His underworld is moral, whereas Vergil's is overtly political, and Homer's is dreary and nightmarish. ©2012 Pearson Education Inc.

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