Welcome to episode 12! Our apologies for being more than a little late getting the blog post up, but here it is at last.
This episode, we delve into the mysterious world of Hades. This Greek god of the underworld is also associated with wealth and the Roman god Pluto. There aren’t a lot of myths about Hades but we can learn a lot from his appearance in Homeric Hymn to Demeter.
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Source Passages
Homeric Hymn to Demeter 1-23; 334-385.
Translation Sources
Homeric Hymns. Trans. Susan Shelmerdine. Newburyport MA: Focus Publishing, 1995. Print.
Selected Sources
NASA. “Pluto: King of the Kuiper Belt” http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/pluto
Shout Outs & Notes
We highly recommend listening to The Endless Knot episode on Pluto. Sarah and Mark provide a great discussion of the origin of the god Pluto. You can subscribe to their podcast through iTunes.
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This week’s theme music: “Super Hero” by King Louie’s Missing Monuments from the album “Live at WFMU” (2011). Used under Creative Commons license. Music used under Creative Commons license and available from Free Music Archive.
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