The peer reviewed article that I read was written by Johan Goldberg and entitled A Movie For All Time. The article was about the movie Groundhog Day and how the movie has almost two different natures. It starts by taking about the basic story which is the hilarious adventure of a weather man living [...]
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Souls of the Underworld
My group talked about the natures of the souls that inhabit the underworld and how their experiences differs form the souls of Homer’s underworld. Virgil’s underworld is different because everyone goes to hell, or Dis. There is no heaven there is only a better part of hell. When Aeneas first arrives on the banks of [...]
The Female Katabasis
The steps in a Katabatic Journey are very similar be the hero male or female. Odysseus and Demeter are both separated from family and then are forced to go through hell (both figuratively and literally) to get their family back. Both disguise themselves in an attempt to find information about their family, and both are [...]
Katabasis in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter
In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter I noticed that the actions of Demeter where similar to the actions of Odysseus and Athene. After Persephone was taken by Hades to the underworld Demeter, who was in pure distress, disguised herself as an elderly woman. When she met the young girls and later their mother [...]
How Odysseus Stages his Return
When Odysseus begins to stage his homecoming to Ithaka he takes great care to follow the guidance of Athene and remain in disguise as a beggar. He begins to slowly enter his household first by staying and learning of the situation from the swineherd. Many times throughout his time spent in disguise he [...]
Meeting Antikleia - Donni, Laura, Diana, and Caitlin
Upon descending into the Underworld, one of the first spirits that Odysseus sees is that of his mother, Antikleia. More than anything else, we know that the love that Odysseus’s mother has for him is extremely strong and pure - the entire reason they meet in the underworld is that she died pining away for [...]
Odysseus meets Agamemnon.
In the underworld Odysseus encounters Agamemnon and after he drinks the blood offering he tells Odysseus the story of his death. While away in Troy his wife Klytaimestra cheats on him with his cousin Aegisthos. In secret his “sluttish” wife and her lover plot to kill Agamemnon when he returns. Following out their plan, Aegisthos [...]
The Realm of Spirits is not for Mortal Flesh
Homer mentions the haze that builds in the sky which indicates to me that Odysseus has not found a place in his own world where the underworld exists but has instead passed into another spiritual world.
The underworld is a strange place. When Homer was describing it, it seems almost like a dream. The rules of [...]
Targeted Response:”Another Spiritual World”
Homer mentions the haze that builds in the sky which indicates to me that Odysseus has not found a place in his own world where the underworld exists but has instead passed into another spiritual world”.(lpage)
When Homer wrote of Odysseus arriving in the Underworld he explained how the ship came to the “deep-running Ocean” and [...]
Odysseus’ Journey to the Underworld
The idea of the Underworld is a complex one - in Greek mythology, it seems to have an almost bittersweet feeling. When one thinks of Hades and the Underworld he rules, one generally thinks of barren rock, dripping caves, and black gondolas steered by skeletons wrapped in black cloth. Disney doesn’t help with this [...]
Word Cloud by Caitlin, Elena, and Lauren
Our word cloud is here.
The suitors are men that desire to marry Odysseus’ wife because of her beauty, wealth, and the power that they have over the land of Ithica. The suitors are convinced that Odysseus has died, so they pressure her to marry so they can assume Odysseus’ power. However, not only does Telemachus [...]
Odysseus - what type of hero is he?
In my freshman year of high school, I read an abridged version of the Odyssey for class. It told the tale of a classic hero that was intelligent, insofar as it came to planning battles and tricking monsters, but that was not likable. However, my opinion of Odysseus does not change his status as a [...]
Publishing your word cloud
All word-cloud images on this site have been generated using:
http://wordle.net
To publish your word-cloud as a blog post:
1. copy the URL of the word-cloud from Wordle once you have saved it to the Gallery and edited it.
2. go to the “katabasis in myth and film” site; log in (under “meta”) using your UMWBlogs username and password.
3. [...]
The Bridge of Khazadum
How does this edited clip from the LORD OF THE RINGS evoke musically and visually an epic katabasis?
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