Journeying to the Underworld Flashcards

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Ovid Orpheus and Eurydice events

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Roman
-O played music and release E from tree dryad <3
-E bitten by snake, O goes to Underworld
-O performs for P + Ha, convinces
-looks around and loses her
-smashes lyre- ripped by farmers

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Orpheus and Eurydice quotes

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‘hasten home’
‘bloodless spirits’
‘dared’

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Homeric Hymn to Demeter events

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Greek, aural style
-P is picking flowers and H kidnaps
-Z had handed her over
-Helios and Hecate see
-D searches for her, famine
-D learns of P’s place and makes deal with Z
-P on earth for some of year

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Homeric Hymn to Demeter quotes

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‘ruler of many’
‘erebus’-darkness
‘murky darkness’

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Orpheus

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‘dared to go down’
‘Ixion’s wheel stilled’
‘eager to see her’

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Eurydice

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‘eager to see her’
‘love won’
‘spoke a last farewell’

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