The Chthonic Deities

•Demeter (Ceres)

•Kore (Persephone. Proserpina)

•Hades (Pluto)

• Orpheus

•Dionysus

•Hecate

•Hermes (Mercury)

• the Erinyes or Furies (used for curses)

Persephone and Hades. Tondo of

an Attic red-figured kylix, ca.

440-430 BC. Said to be from

Vulci.

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 OrphismOrpheus and Orphism

• Associated with ThraceAssociated with Thrace

• Information from the Information from the RhapsodiesRhapsodies, a Hellenistic , a Hellenistic compilation of Orphicacompilation of Orphica ca. 3rd c en BCE ca. 3rd c en BCE

• The The Orphic TheogonyOrphic Theogony

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

Museum Christian-Byzantine, Athens

The Death of Orpheus, by Albrecht Durer

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Hans Leu, Orpheus und die Tiere, 1519

Head of Orpheus by Gustave Moreau, 1865

Orfeo ed Euridice, by Federico Cervelli

Nicholas Poussin, Orphée et Eurydice. 1854.

Frederic Leighton, Orpheus and Eurydice, 1864

John William Waterhouse, Nymphs finding the head of Orpheus

Engraving by Regius for Ovid Metamorphoses, Bk 10