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The Labyrinth as Katabasis = Descent into the Underworld. The Labyrinth Descent into the Underworld. The Cyclops’ Cave as Katabasis. Odsysseus’ Descent into the Underworld. Odysseus and Elpenor. Odysseus also meets Agamamnon and Achilles See Odyssey XI. Odysseus and Tiresias. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Labyrinth as Katabasis= Descent into the Underworld
• The Labyrinth • Descent into the Underworld
The Cyclops’ Cave as Katabasis
Odsysseus’ Descent into the Underworld
Odysseus and Tiresias
Odysseus and Elpenor
Odysseus also meets Agamamnon and AchillesSee Odyssey XI
Other Descents:Heracles and Cerberus
Museum Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Catalogue Number: Louvre E701Beazley Archive Number: N/AWare: Caeretan Black Figure Shape: HydriaPainter: --Date: ca 530 BCPeriod: Archaic
Cerberus
Hercules seizing Cerberus
|Hercules approaches Cerberus as Athena looks on.
Note the doric column and frieze used to indicate the palace of Hades. Andocides Painter (Paris, Louvre)
. . . And my Conductor, with his spans extended,Took of the earth, and with his fists well filled, He threw it into those rapacious gullets(Inferno VI 25-37)
Cerberus in Dante’s InfernoEtching by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
Other Descents: Theseus
Heracles Rescuing TheseusFrom the Chair of Forgetfulness
Aeneas’ Katabasis
Sibyl leading Aeneas through the UnderworldJan Breughel II (1601-1678) Brussels, Royal Museum of Ancient Art of Belgium
Orpheus and Eurydice
Relief Sculpture, c. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (From L to R: Hermes, Eurydice, Orpheus)
Orpheus Leading Eurydice. Camille Corot, 1861. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.