journey to the underworld

Question 1

what were the names for the good, neutral and hell

Answer 1

elysium
asphodel
tartarus

Question 2

why does the demeter hynm explain seasons

Answer 2

in the winter when perspehone is in the underworld demeter god of fertility is lamenting and so things do not grow and prosper

Question 3

how does the hymn portray the underworld

Answer 3

its very dark and unpleasent
its remote, no one could hear persephone
its separte from olympia and that, not even the gods knew where she was

Question 4

what does the hymn tell us about the gods

Answer 4

the gods fighting affects the human realm, demeter nearly stopped all crops
all gods play a necessary part as though zeus could decide what happened he couldnt make crops

Question 5

what is the roman underworld myth

Answer 5

orpheus and euridice

Question 6

how do the romans portray the underworld

Answer 6

dark and joyless
they still posses some humanity, are moved by orpheus
ultimetaly they cannot escape death and fate
orpheus sees plutos position as potenially the best as he hosts humans for the longest out of the three brothers