. 27). The ensign of his power was a [ Here are the asphodel meadows, a dull andstaff, with which, like Hermes, he drove the cheerless place (Od. xi. 48!)), even if Orionshades into the lower world. There he sat upon can still pursue his occupation of hunting [ throne with his consort Persephone, as grim ] xi. 689, 578, xxiv. 13). Beyond this was Erelm appearance (in this period of the myth) as j the place of darkness and the abode of Hadeshimself (II. ix. 457; Pind. 01. ix. 85). He ap- and Persephone, to which Odysseus did
. 27). The ensign of his power was a [ Here are the asphodel meadows, a dull andstaff, with which, like Hermes, he drove the cheerless place (Od. xi. 48!)), even if Orionshades into the lower world. There he sat upon can still pursue his occupation of hunting [ throne with his consort Persephone, as grim ] xi. 689, 578, xxiv. 13). Beyond this was Erelm appearance (in this period of the myth) as j the place of darkness and the abode of Hadeshimself (II. ix. 457; Pind. 01. ix. 85). He ap- and Persephone, to which Odysseus did not pene-pears seldom in story, since he rarely left his trate. There is a general idea of vastness andnether realm. The exceptions were, when he of gloom or twilight witli unsubstantial inarti-carried off Persephone, and when he went to culate ghosts, who twitter like bats. HittingOlympus to be cured by Paeon of the wound about among whom appear more distinctly thedealt to him by Heracles (II. v. 895). Besides figures of the heroes. The dead in Od. xi. arc. 376 HADES HADRIANUS unsubstantial images of the living persons?vithout flesh or bones or recollection ; yet con-piousness and memory can be recalled whenthey drink the blood. But even in Homer be-sides this unreal, impersonal existence thereare traces of a belief in conscious life, as in thetwenty-fourth book of the Odyssey. The descrip-jions of Minos, Orion and Heracles resuming The art representations of the underworld arefrequent in vase paintings ; the punishments ofSisyphus &c. date back as far as black-figurevases of the seventh century It is probablethat such paintings, especially those of Poly-gnotus in the Lesche at Delphi (Paus. x. 19),did not merely follow the popular idea but insome measure formed it.
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