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

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

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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

  5. Orpheus and Orphism • Associated with Thrace • Information from the Rhapsodies, a Hellenistic compilation of Orphica ca. 3rd c en BCE • The Orphic Theogony

  6. Mosaico pavimentale romano, da Palermo. Museo archeologico regionale di Palermo,

  7. Museum Christian-Byzantine, Athens

  8. The Death of Orpheus, by Albrecht Durer

  9. Hans Leu, Orpheus und die Tiere, 1519

  10. Head of Orpheus by Gustave Moreau, 1865

  11. Orfeo ed Euridice, by Federico Cervelli

  12. Nicholas Poussin, Orphée et Eurydice. 1854.

  13. Frederic Leighton, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1864

  14. John William Waterhouse, Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus

  15. Engraving by Regius for Ovid Metamorphoses, Bk 10

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