Views of the Afterlife: The Realm of Hades
Morford and Lenardon, Chapter Thirteen
Hades: Overview, Images and Texts
Images of Hades
Margot Peet and Thomas Hart Benton: http://www.margotpeet.com/thb-persephone.html
More on Thomas Hart Benton: http://tvm.tigtail.org/TVM/L_View/B/NAmerican/a.%20pre%20WW%20II/benton/benton.html
Homer’s Book of the Dead (Odyssey 11)
Plato’s Myth of Er
numeric intervals (journey of a thousand years)
transmigration of the soul
reward and punishment
purification
divine immortality
Vergil’s Book of the Dead (Aeneid 6)
golden bough
comprehensive picture of Tartarus and Elysium
Traditional Elements of Hades’ Realm
three judges Minos Rhadamanthys and Aeacus
five rivers: Styx (hate), Acheron (woe),, Lethe (forgetfulness), Cocytus (wailing) and Phlegethon (fire)
Charon the ferryman
Joachim Patinir
Charon's Boat, 1515-24
Cerberus the watchdog
Hermes Psychopompos
In the Modern World
Astronomy: Pluto and Charon
http://www.lowell.edu/users/buie/pluto/chphases.html
http://www.solarviews.com/eng/pluto.htm
rock bands:
http://charon.cjb.net/
http://www.cerberus.terra.cl/main.htm
computer software:
http://tesla.rcub.bg.ac.yu/~antony/Charon/
Cerberus spelaeological society: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/cerberus/
A 19th century battleship: http://home.vicnet.net.au/~cerberus/
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