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The Underworld In The Aeneid

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This week’s lectures were on the underworlds. I find it interesting how Virgil and Homer had an extremely different view of the underworld off each other. For Homer, he talked about the underworld in the Odyssey with Odysseus as the visitor. Odysseus has no problems going to the underworld he has no issues seen all he had to do was sacrifice a black sheep/ drink blood and is an enlightening experience for Odysseus. He learns about how to go on with the rest of this life thanks to Agamemnon and finds out why Poseidon hates him. Odyssey can talk to anybody he wants to and the underworld is setup as when your dead, your dead (no one is special). In Vigil’s version of the underworld in the Aeneid, Aeneas has a journey where he must first pass

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