Underworld

with the Mesopotamians, they saw death as a sinful process. Although, the afterlife was glorious and your spirit would live on. Death for the Egyptians, however, depended on who the person was. After your fate was determined with the Chief of the Underworld, you would then be directing on to “heaven” or “hell”. The Hindus took the entire process in a series of various stages. Post-death depends on…

important to the people, but were also one of the most honorable practices someone could do to remember a person. Death rituals represented the passage to the afterlife and how the ritual was carried out determined how the person would thrive in the Underworld. Just like in Antigone, women had the privilege and responsibility for organizing the funeral ceremonies during this point in time. These reasons become exceptionally important in Antigone’s conflict when Creon punishes her for trying to…

Homer's famous epic, The Odyssey, was an amazing story to many people depicting Odysseus’s quest home from the trojan war and what happens on that quest. The story has a lot of symbolism and lessons that are filtered through Odysseus’s journey home. Odysseus shows to be an epic hero because he was given a quest, helped by a helpful companion and enters a supernatural world. Odysseus was also depicted as not being a hero in some parts of the story as well. Odysseus shows to be on a quest…

The Greek Mythology Column Myth: Orpheus and Eurydice Once upon a millennium ago, there was a musician by the name of Orpheus (Or-phe-us). Orpheus was the best mortal (not a god) musician in all of Greece. His mother was the muse Calliope, and his father was the god Apollo. No wonder he was so gifted in music with those talented parents. But to tell the truth, Orpheus was more than gifted. His beautiful music was magical. With the songs he learned from his mother and the lyre his father…

Apollo’s Mistake Apollo's Roman name and it is Apollo. He is the God of Medicine, music, archery, and the sun. On day Apollo was going home from archery practice.When he was in the forest coming home he saw a floating magic harp. He walked toward it and saw a sign and it said “If you take this harp and play it at a person it makes them lie but if you do it to many times to one God they will say terrible things to everyone”. Then Apollo took the harp and walked home. He went to Olympus and saw…

The Walt Disney animated movie Hercules is based on the most famous hero of ancient Greek mythology. However, both the movie and the original myth are meant for two very different audiences thus, why they differ in a few ways. The movie version deviates, not only in the story of Hercules himself, but in details that pertain to many other aspects of Classical mythology. Though some may criticize the movie makers for their inaccuracies, each change represents an aspect of our own modern culture or…

The Divine Comedy is a three part series, written by Dante Alighieri, which describes the frustrations he felt, while in exile, pertaining to Florentine politics. The first part in the series, The Inferno, depicts Dante’s pilgrimage into the underworld of Hell. The epic describes Dante’s descent in an attempt to get back on a spiritual path. The Inferno was created with the purpose of telling the politics of Florence and combining ideas of Pagan and Greek religion (“Literary Background”).…

A Great Hero and His Journey Odysseus is Greece’s most quick witted, determined, and gritty hero. The first reason Odysseus is a great victor is due to his quick-wittedness and having a plan for everything and or situation. Odysseus always found a way to get through tough quests, even though it may have seemed impossible to conquer. During the long, treacherous war, Odysseus came up with the plan that would end this bloodshed in triumph for Athens and would go down in history for years to come…

Eurydice. He and Eurydice live a happy, loving life until a son of Apollo tries to pursue the young nymph. In her attempt to escape, she steps on a poisonous snake, gets bitten and dies. Orpheus, still infatuated with his lover, follows Eurydice to the Underworld where he bargains with his musical charm to take her home. Hades permits this under one condition: he must not look back at her until they once again reach the upper world. Unfortunately, Orpheus is so overcome with lust and passion…

thunder and was often referred to as the “Father of Gods and men” (“Zeus • Facts and Information on Greek God of the Sky Zeus”). Poseidon, God of the sea, wielded a trident and was known to be vengeful. Hades, God of the Underworld, was well known for his rule over the underworld and for deceiving Persephone to make her his queen. These are a few renowned Greek gods from Greek mythology. Greek mythology is far more distinguished…