Death in Ancient Greece: Exploring the Myth of the Underworld

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  • Опубликовано: 25 дек 2024

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  • @AngelinoShred
    @AngelinoShred Год назад +57

    When I die, I hope I'm greeted with that first line "You're dead. Congratulations. Let's start your journey to the underworld, shall we."

  • @woodsmand
    @woodsmand Год назад +291

    If you find yourself alone, riding in green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium and you are already dead.

    • @maryeckel9682
      @maryeckel9682 Год назад +7

      Do I get to choose my horse? Because I want a magnificent black Friesian stallion

    • @O_M554
      @O_M554 Год назад +4

      Where is this quote from?

    • @angel8fingers
      @angel8fingers Год назад +10

      @@O_M554 Gladiator with Russel Crowe

    • @thechronicbibliophile
      @thechronicbibliophile Год назад +2

      ​@@O_M554 it's from the movie Gladiator 🙂

    • @AnthonySimeone
      @AnthonySimeone Год назад +1

      Not yet...

  • @panqueque445
    @panqueque445 Год назад +166

    "You will be judged by the souls of the people you have wronged"
    That is deliciously evil. I love it.

    • @GilTheDragon
      @GilTheDragon Год назад +23

      It's wonderfully restorative; those people have also wronged others & thus are purifying themselves & liable to show mercy.
      It is the dinner of the long spoons.

    • @maryeckel9682
      @maryeckel9682 Год назад +15

      It sounds like justice to me.

    • @nobbynoris
      @nobbynoris Год назад +7

      It's not evil at all, that's the whole point.

    • @MGSVxBreakpoint
      @MGSVxBreakpoint 11 дней назад

      I don't think the dead care about vengeance.

  • @holyfreak86
    @holyfreak86 Год назад +47

    Is really amazing how much inspired on Classic mithology is the Dante´s Divine Comedy. How specific on the landscapes and what character deserved what. Great video Lady!

  • @kayeokay7269
    @kayeokay7269 Год назад +47

    You mention that this is already a long video, and it got me thinking. I would totally watch longer format videos from you. I don't know about the rest of your audience but id be so excited to see an hour long video from you, if you ever felt like you wanted to! You're great and I love watching. :)

  • @michaelake9814
    @michaelake9814 Год назад +39

    Love it when your dogs get involved! Thanks for telling the stories. I have learned a great deal from your content. Much appreciated!

  • @RafaelGarcia022
    @RafaelGarcia022 Год назад +16

    Oh, this is my stuff. I've been obsessed with Hades (the realm) for a while! Thank you so much!

  • @talesfromthewanderingscribe
    @talesfromthewanderingscribe Год назад +66

    Hi Lady. I just wanted to say that I have been looking forward to this episode. I’m researching the history of death and death cults in ancient times and I think this video will be a great research tool.

    • @adeeravlog
      @adeeravlog Год назад +7

      New video request - death cults 📚

  • @vanzetti1927
    @vanzetti1927 Год назад +4

    Loved the video, honestly. But the breaks for the puppy was ADORABLE. I am very happy those moments did not get edited out.

  • @lynseybowe8693
    @lynseybowe8693 Год назад +6

    Love hearing your dog’s cute barks during the video. The oracle of Delphi and other similar sites have always fascinated me.

  • @angel8fingers
    @angel8fingers Год назад +4

    “Ok! Let’s play a game! Your dead! Congratulations!”
    Best intro line to a video ever!
    Great job LoTL! I am using this video to inspire my creative writing (designing a religion for a god of nobility and magic in a TTRPG setting!)
    Thanks a lot kiddo!

  • @Vintagewitchstyle
    @Vintagewitchstyle Год назад +50

    Love this series. Can you do the ancient Egyptian gods and mythology next? Please and thank you.

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Год назад +7

      Egyptian afterlife is interesting with lake of fire. I find Mesopotamian afterlife much more confusing there is more than one version of it.

    • @TheMightyBlackPearl
      @TheMightyBlackPearl Год назад +2

      That would be amazing! I agree. *Can we please get an Ancient Egyptian Mythology series!?* I would LOVE that. I'm too huge of a fan of all mythology. Stay safe, my friend! ❤

    • @TheMightyBlackPearl
      @TheMightyBlackPearl Год назад +2

      ​@@starcapture3040 I find it confusing as well. Very interesting, no doubt. All of these gods, all of this culture. Can you just imagine the times? I mean, definitely a more brutal time for all, but I cannot even imagine how beautiful our planet must have looked then. We see buildings all over today in the world, just imagine what Egypt looked like lit up at night, or Rome and Greece! Amazing..❤

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Год назад +2

      @@TheMightyBlackPearl My Month is Gemini Too and I share your love to the ancient world too. its like a whole magical place where people have had far more connection to nature than us

    • @TheMightyBlackPearl
      @TheMightyBlackPearl Год назад +2

      @@starcapture3040 us Gems sure do love nature. It's like a craving, isn't it? I can't begin to imagine what it all looked like. We sure do love knowledge and things hidden, don't we? I love Egypt. When I was a little girl I so badly wanted to be an Egyptologist. I think I may pursue a different route though because I want to visit every site I can! Though Egypt and Greece I'm sure would be my favorites. Lol

  • @jimbrittain402
    @jimbrittain402 Год назад +6

    First, you make scholarship delightful. Second, it's good to see your face again. Third, your voice is an extra attraction. Mark this day with a white stone; another Cinzia video. (Take your damn upvote, already.)

  • @howardhavardramberg333
    @howardhavardramberg333 Год назад +1

    You communicate with your dog! So cute! I feel like so few people actually talk with their pets, it's lovely.~

  • @FestivalFacePaintArtist
    @FestivalFacePaintArtist Год назад +8

    Always find your content fascinating!!!
    If you could do episodes on Celtics, Druids, Nordic Gods, etc. that would be AWESOME 🤩👏🏼🙌

  • @kernira
    @kernira Год назад +8

    I'm in the midst of my annual read of Dante's Divine Comedy so this video and one on the devil fill in a lot of his Inferno background. I thoroughly enjoyed it, thank you for all the work that you put into these.

    • @ruthbennett7563
      @ruthbennett7563 Год назад

      If you’re looking for a light take on the DC, then Red’s videos on the OSP channel are just a hoot.
      (I reread the DC periodically to keep my own foolishness in check.)

  • @rnrsteev
    @rnrsteev Год назад +1

    Thank You So Very Much. I like to listen to stuff late at night to fall asleep. I'm not saying you're boring, but very soothing. I'll pick it up in the morning where I dozed off.

  • @trentzelazny7728
    @trentzelazny7728 Год назад +2

    Hi. Only just found your channel and love it. Have watched several since I found you. Fascinating and great presentation. Thanks for doing what you do 🙏👍

  • @paigecampbell9434
    @paigecampbell9434 Год назад +2

    I love your style of explaining these classic mythological writings wonderful!!

  • @Achilles7117
    @Achilles7117 Месяц назад

    The Greek Way of Death was such a good book to read about the Greeks thoughts and interactions with their dead and how death affected the livings lived and laws

  • @MrAaroncissell
    @MrAaroncissell Год назад +3

    Looking forward to the next few videos. I will wait for the video on the different cults. You bring the joy of contemplation and wonder back to someone who misses reading. Thanks.

  • @somnaire3418
    @somnaire3418 Год назад +4

    I always love your videos, your voice and all the wonderful knowledge you have to give. ^_^ Hope that you are in a cool place with this upcoming Summer and its heat and or, in the very least, are able to be keeping cool during Summer. I look forward to your next production. :3

  • @scarecrow939
    @scarecrow939 Год назад +1

    Your videos are the perfect balance of nerdy learning; super enjoy, and asmr. Truly thankful for your channel.

  • @aliensurfer3976
    @aliensurfer3976 Год назад

    You are a great scholar, actress and artist. Deeply grateful for your work. Thank you.

  • @m0ntypth0n
    @m0ntypth0n Год назад +1

    She speaks so clearly. I appreciate that

  • @ofthewoodbooks4278
    @ofthewoodbooks4278 7 месяцев назад

    Cinzia! I just discovered your channel and am OBSESSED! And this was before I found out we share a surname.
    Thanks for all you do!

  • @danielstarkey9953
    @danielstarkey9953 Год назад +1

    Just discovered this channel. Your voice is so deep and pronunciation so received (I think, not an expert on differences on UK regional speech), you sound like an incredible villain.
    Bummed it took me so long to find such a great history/archaeology/classics channel. Thank you for your work!

  • @winterburden
    @winterburden Год назад +3

    Thank you so much for this exciting underworld video Cinzia!

  • @NetherworldBibliotek
    @NetherworldBibliotek Год назад

    I haven't heard the word 'povos' in so long. It brought a smile to my face.

  • @markbradford8626
    @markbradford8626 Год назад +4

    ace as always :) may the gods of the overworld smile down and protect you

  • @cheryldeboissiere1851
    @cheryldeboissiere1851 Год назад +1

    Thank you very much. I bow 🙇‍♀️ to your greater knowledge of Greek Afterlife mythology.

  • @millymollymrst3537
    @millymollymrst3537 Год назад +2

    Love hearing about the underworld, great video. Cant wait for your devil video.😊

  • @jeffbrownstain
    @jeffbrownstain Год назад

    NO.
    I hope YOU'RE doing splendidly.
    I didn't even realize it was almost ten minutes in and my favorite parasocial greeting hadn't come up yet.

  • @dp6003
    @dp6003 Год назад +1

    I have enjoyed listening to your presentation today
    The site of the rivers are easily explainable.

  • @larrytuft9782
    @larrytuft9782 Год назад

    Thanks!

  • @WolfieDawn
    @WolfieDawn Год назад +3

    Omg yes!!!! I'm always so happy to see a new video from you! ❤❤❤❤ Reading really does save lives. Keep reading - ESPECIALLY the books America is trying to ban.

  • @williamcainjr8496
    @williamcainjr8496 Год назад +1

    Good to see you making content again! I hope you have been doing well.

  • @Jakob.Hamburg
    @Jakob.Hamburg 15 дней назад

    Nice video, interesting lore, well told. : ) Thank you for sharing.

  • @lungelongubane4071
    @lungelongubane4071 Год назад

    I'm always intrigued to learn anything abt the underworld especially how there are different perspectives to it in terms of how it's represented ❤❤

  • @KarlWitsman
    @KarlWitsman 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you! Much of this was familiar, thanks to my teenage interest in mythology, but I had no idea that the Greeks had a belief in reincarnation as a regular process. Sorry about the tech issues, but the doggie interactions were very cute.

  • @goopygremlin7304
    @goopygremlin7304 Год назад +3

    I would love reading lists or bibliographies from these videos!

  • @doradestroy
    @doradestroy 10 месяцев назад

    I needed some info on Hades, I'm thrilled to find your channel as a result! ❤‍🔥

  • @goblin3359
    @goblin3359 Год назад

    This was fascinating. Thank you.

  • @victoriadiesattheend.8478
    @victoriadiesattheend.8478 Год назад

    How lovely. Thank you so much, Cinzia.

  • @DavosTheDegen
    @DavosTheDegen Год назад +3

    Another amazing video! Found your channel around the start of the year and I love your content :)

  • @BonnibelLecter
    @BonnibelLecter Год назад

    Good video! esp about such a multifaceted topic. Re: The oracle at Delphi, Religion for Breakfast here on youtube did a video exploring whether we now believe fumes are the culprit of the trances, and generally probably not.

  • @FaerywingArt
    @FaerywingArt Год назад +2

    Been watching your videos for quite awhile & always enjoy them. These last several including this one have been really interesting to me, since I’m really focused on the Hades video game at the moment. I really adore both Thanatos & Zagreus in the game & would love to hear more about them!

    • @maggiescarlet
      @maggiescarlet Год назад +1

      I'm playing that game too and loving the mythology! I'm not very skilled so it's taking me awhile to get through (I'm up to Theseus), and I'm taking a break to play Spiritfarer. Which is funny because it's also loosely based on the Underworld, taking on Charon's job but in a more wholesome way :)

    • @FaerywingArt
      @FaerywingArt Год назад +1

      @@maggiescarlet I’ll have to try that other game out!
      I’m quite always into the game now, but I’ve been playing it obsessively, lol. I would recommend to you to google up the best builds as far as keepsake/aspect/and boons for each weapon. That helped me out a lot! Also, there are videos out there with good beginner tips. I’ve found the distance weapons don’t work as well for me, the melee is better, especially Malphon. I guess it fits my play style best.

    • @maggiescarlet
      @maggiescarlet Год назад

      @@FaerywingArt I'll look into that next time I dive into its depths haha. The fists are my favourite too, especially with the magnetic power on it- can't remember names. The shield works pretty well for me too, just barging in and out of the fray basically! Spiritfarer is very different, almost like hotel/resource management, getting to know and completing requests for the souls, and a little bit of platforming. Very relaxing :)

  • @JoseRamirez-vb1sk
    @JoseRamirez-vb1sk Год назад +5

    Hermes gives the brochure for the land of the dead. It is there the dead learn there are no pajamas allowed.
    For my trail can I use the "blame on it on the al-aaaaa-alchohol, baby, the Hennessy made me feel loose, the patron put me in the zone".
    Also, I have an original sin, I poked a badger with a spoon.🎉

  • @averongodoffire8098
    @averongodoffire8098 Год назад +1

    I can imagine Hermes collecting me with first saying “congratulations you’re dead!” With the cadence as yours

  • @Heothbremel
    @Heothbremel Год назад +1

    ❤❤❤❤❤ these are helping me write a romance novel, thank you!

  • @nickrhodes9031
    @nickrhodes9031 Год назад

    I keep pressing the like button but my tablet doesn't seem to believe me! I will therefore leave my like as a comment and confound my contrarian silicone intermediary. Interesting, insightful and entertaining as ever. Thank you dropping another gem into the proffered bowl of my day.

  • @michaelgonzales1845
    @michaelgonzales1845 Год назад

    Thank you for the video, I discovered your channel just last night and I'm really enjoying them. Your the first channel I've ever subscribed too on RUclips.

  • @Elvertaw
    @Elvertaw Год назад

    Thanks for the video!! I always learn so much watching you!!

  • @TheSilveryew
    @TheSilveryew Год назад

    Thank you for another superb video as always ^_^

  • @thorgeist
    @thorgeist Год назад

    Wow, beautiful break down!

  • @gamenation9485
    @gamenation9485 Год назад

    This was a good one Cinzia, loved this but please stop melting my heart, you fascinating Lady, not everyone can be this cool 🖤

  • @adeeravlog
    @adeeravlog Год назад

    Love love love LOVE your videos! ❤

  • @lebean8001
    @lebean8001 Год назад +1

    the amount of ask a mortician vibes i got from the first 10 seconds of this had me doing a double take to check if i had clicked on a caitlin video

  • @TheFireflycam
    @TheFireflycam 3 месяца назад

    First time here, loved the video, such perfect diction, pronunciation, and annunciation, … would love to see you attempt. ‘Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos’. Poem … they say it’s quite difficult, a French man said he’d prefer war than to attempt it again, plus I suspect you’d find it a fun challenge, I subscribed after you said the word povvo at the start, brilliant 👍😊, cheers from Australia

  • @roxyndra
    @roxyndra Год назад +1

    For anyone curious, Charon (Χάρων) [IPA: ˈxaro:n] in Ancient Greek would be pronounced like Khárōn.

  • @jviland
    @jviland Год назад

    great work and great vid, as always!!

  • @georgeoldsterd8994
    @georgeoldsterd8994 Год назад +3

    Curious is that different countries mention the ancient Greek burial coin tradition differently. The British and Americans say the coins were put in the deceased's mouth, but the Russians (and other east-Europeans say coins were put on one's eyes. I wonder if this depended on source or on translation? 🤔

  • @rocklee4523
    @rocklee4523 Год назад

    Yay! You are the best! 🖤💚

  • @J_Z913
    @J_Z913 Год назад

    Loved this one! ❤️

  • @NotMyGumDropButtons.444
    @NotMyGumDropButtons.444 Год назад +1

    06:27 I CANT WAIT 😍😍😍

  • @josefeliciano1077
    @josefeliciano1077 Год назад

    Great video,thanks!

  • @AIAnalysisMD
    @AIAnalysisMD Год назад +1

    I have always wondered, if you knew you would be judged and sent to Tartarus, why would you bother paying the ferryman?

  • @evanames5940
    @evanames5940 Год назад

    Very Good. Thanks

  • @kadinmay
    @kadinmay Год назад +1

    Love your channel very much. :)

  • @johnrigler8858
    @johnrigler8858 Год назад

    I love reading the works of Play-Doh!

  • @cheryldeboissiere1851
    @cheryldeboissiere1851 Год назад +2

    Hel is the Norse Goddess of the Underworld. If I’m not mistaken, it is known as Niffelheim.

  • @MiloOnYoutube
    @MiloOnYoutube Год назад

    thank u 4 teaching 👏

  • @russian.hamster5
    @russian.hamster5 Год назад

    I'm so glad to hear more puppy barks ❤ Also, side note, I despise the Phlegethon it is a miserable time XD

  • @zoemills242
    @zoemills242 Год назад

    Fascinating 😊

  • @anothercell
    @anothercell Год назад +3

    good video, do you have a list of sources you used? as someone who is very interested in greek mythology and cult, i would love to read these books/articles

  • @GothPaoki
    @GothPaoki Год назад +2

    It's very interesting how the ancient greek views on the underworld were translated on Christianity and the old testament since the biblical sheol is basically the hebrew version of the underworld as there's no heaven or hell on the old testament.

  • @jayson1geek479
    @jayson1geek479 Год назад

    I love ancient greek people!!!!!!❤❤😘

  • @tenebrousoul9368
    @tenebrousoul9368 Год назад +4

    What are your thoughts on the priestess Kassandra/Cassandra?

  • @steveyj3002
    @steveyj3002 Год назад +6

    Your voice is beautiful

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  Год назад +2

      Aww thank you so much, that's really kind of you to say

    • @StarlahMutiny
      @StarlahMutiny Год назад +3

      We should be able to select this voice as an option on Waze!

  • @fredwiggins4610
    @fredwiggins4610 6 месяцев назад

    Thank you

  • @humanwithaplaylist
    @humanwithaplaylist Год назад +1

    Hey. Can you please consider doing more Persian myths? The internet is severely lacking

  • @robertward2830
    @robertward2830 Год назад +1

    Charon: OK, get in the boat.
    Me *becoming one of the restless dead to haunt my neighbor who keeps blocking my driveway*: Yeah, I don't think so, nerd.
    *Hecate approvingly draws me a map back to my house in the background*

  • @42ndLife
    @42ndLife Год назад +1

    Aint going to lie, I plan on offering my soul to Hecate on hope she might accept my undying service. Hecate is my celebrity crush.

  • @almitrahopkins1873
    @almitrahopkins1873 Год назад

    The land on the dead is named Hades, the king is named for the land he ruled. That’s why he is also called Pluton, which is a name of the god alone. It’s like kings and queens being called England, Spain, France and the like, instead of their personal names.
    We know lots about Hades, but little about its ruler.

  • @lilykatmoon4508
    @lilykatmoon4508 Год назад

    My dog Frekki is lying beside me as I watch this. Her ears perked right up when she hear your dog barking, lol.

  • @jeffbrownstain
    @jeffbrownstain Год назад

    Perfect pause at the glitch at 12:14 for this comment 🤔
    No wonder my entire life has been spent longing for non existence... I probably already have that floating rock in the void that I always wanted as my own...
    Ugh, home is in the infinite beyond 😔

  • @mjkluck
    @mjkluck Год назад +1

    Good stuff, Kiddo.

  • @Gojirosan
    @Gojirosan Год назад

    This video makes me feel like a good little bean.

  • @GizmoFromPizmo
    @GizmoFromPizmo 22 дня назад

    I appreciate this discussion as it helps explain where Catholicism gets its Purgatory myth. As you say, Purgatory is a form of reincarnation. That makes sense.

  • @sarahdonahue8393
    @sarahdonahue8393 7 месяцев назад +2

    Please be careful to call Hades the God of *the dead.* Not the God of *death.* Also, Persephone isn't really the Goddess of death or the dead. She is the Queen of the Underworld.
    If you'd like, I wouldn't mind gathering up the sources for this upon request.
    Just to clarify, not hate intended ❤

  • @thirdcoastfirebird
    @thirdcoastfirebird Год назад

    As a man who worships the ancient Greek Gods I'd say that lap hates you at this point. That bad joke aside this was a great video. Keep up the great work.

  • @iamgroot6965
    @iamgroot6965 Год назад

    I'm fading into elysium... I see bartholmew... HE'S BEAUTIFUL!

  • @theblackgoatofthewoods
    @theblackgoatofthewoods Год назад

    Really fun to hear how much of this that Dante Allegeri straight up copyed from this

  • @ApexCalibre
    @ApexCalibre Год назад +1

    Hi Lady, I was wondering if you were planning a video on the latest drama over the Netflix Cleopatra business?

    • @CinziaDuBois
      @CinziaDuBois  Год назад +8

      I don’t know what I would say - I’ve already done a whole video about the idea that Cleopatra isn’t black so I don’t know what more I can add 🤷🏻‍♀️

    • @starcapture3040
      @starcapture3040 Год назад

      @@CinziaDuBois were the Egyptians black or the Carthaginians? I saw a documentary where Hannibal was depicted as black whileseptimius severus was also black.

  • @Ashley.Michell22
    @Ashley.Michell22 Месяц назад

    Pup was like no you said it was this 😂

  • @AIAnalysisMD
    @AIAnalysisMD Год назад

    Love learning about my name sake.

  • @robertpetre9378
    @robertpetre9378 Год назад

    I think it’s the same as an in Norse mythology as their underworld was called Hel and the goddess of death was also called Hel.

  • @rosykatzCATS
    @rosykatzCATS 5 месяцев назад

    Thing is, I can communicate with the otherside seriously. But since I have always been this way, I donmake a habit of doing it all if the time, nor do I ask particular questions. Don't know exactly why, either because I don't want to know, ir I just feel like I should play it cool. Needlessly, I do ask questions regarding my personal situations in regards to yes ir no questions. I know there is an existance afterlife but not exactly how it is. I'm smart enough to know to not allow darkness or negative Spirits near us. I have been this way since I can remember to remember, like 3? I just don't tell everyone. It is too controversial & culd cause a lot of unwanted issues. I did discuss it with my Rabbi once. He said G_d didn't give bad. We left it with that. He died several years ago. I keep it quiet.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Год назад +2

    Yeah Hades it's nothing like Dante's version of hell with his many levels.

  • @jzilla989
    @jzilla989 Год назад

    Now I just wanna play Hades again.