The Labyrinth as Katabasis = Descent into the Underworld
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The Labyrinth as Katabasis= Descent into the Underworld
• The Labyrinth • Descent into the Underworld
The Cyclops’ Cave as Katabasis
Odsysseus’ Descent into the Underworld
Odysseus and Tiresias
Odysseus and Elpenor
Odysseus also meets Agamamnon and AchillesSee Odyssey XI
Other Descents:Heracles and Cerberus
Museum Collection: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France Catalogue Number: Louvre E701Beazley Archive Number: N/AWare: Caeretan Black Figure Shape: HydriaPainter: --Date: ca 530 BCPeriod: Archaic
Cerberus
Hercules seizing Cerberus
|Hercules approaches Cerberus as Athena looks on.
Note the doric column and frieze used to indicate the palace of Hades. Andocides Painter (Paris, Louvre)
. . . And my Conductor, with his spans extended,Took of the earth, and with his fists well filled, He threw it into those rapacious gullets(Inferno VI 25-37)
Cerberus in Dante’s InfernoEtching by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)
Other Descents: Theseus
Heracles Rescuing TheseusFrom the Chair of Forgetfulness
Aeneas’ Katabasis
Sibyl leading Aeneas through the UnderworldJan Breughel II (1601-1678) Brussels, Royal Museum of Ancient Art of Belgium
Orpheus and Eurydice
Relief Sculpture, c. Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (From L to R: Hermes, Eurydice, Orpheus)
Orpheus Leading Eurydice. Camille Corot, 1861. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.