Exam 12: Myths of Death: Encounters With the Underworld

How did Anticlea die, according to her own ghost?

Who distracted Dionysus Zagreus with toys and tore him limb from limb?

In Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and Hebrew, the words for which two things are related?

How did Elpenor die, according to his own ghost?

In ancient Greece, the soul of a dead body survived as a sort of eidolon, or "_______."

In Plato's myth about Er, the destiny that each soul chose was confirmed by the third of the fates, _______.

Hermes is depicted on the left here in what capacity?

Who was famous for tricking Death, and even escaped from the underworld to live a second life ?

Odysseus travels to the land of the dead in the Odyssey in order to consult _______.

Which of the following are other names by which Hades was known to the Greeks and Romans?

Who was famous for violating a cloud in the shape of Hera, and creating the father of the Centaurs by spilling his seed on the ground?

Why does Odysseus end up making a rapid departure from the underworld?

Which of the following statements are true of Orpheus?

The origin and nature of Orphic teachings seem to be connected with the equally obscure doctrines of _______.

How did Tiresias become blind?

According to the Orphic cosmogony, in the beginning was _______.

Which philosopher was among those who claimed that death was the soul's end as well as the body's?

_______, such as those at funerals and weddings, will traditionally frighten a ghost.

Whose ghost famously tells Odysseus that he would prefer "to serve as a hireling to another, a man who is / landless and hungry himself, than here to be ruler / of all the shriveled-up dead"?

Which of the following serve as judges of the dead in later accounts of the underworld?