Final Blog Post: Greek Mythology in CLA30

In my final blog post, I would like to talk about a connection to class that I took note of recently in my Classics 30: Word Roots class. Last week in lecture, we discussed multiple stories of Greek mythology. One story we talked about a map of the Underworld and those who resided there. In the map the multiple "levels" of the underworld was was shown from the point of view of neither planometric or bird's eye view. The point of view of the different levels was shown as elevated and from the side. If anything, it was similar to a bird's eye view. The map was done on a piece of pottery and this was interesting to me because I was working on our final map projects at the time. The contrast between how the different methods of map drawing between the Greeks and in modern times is very interesting. I opted to create my map on a white posterboard paper, the fact that the map of the underworld was done in pottery, which is very involved work, intrigued me. In addition, the map of the underworld was said to scare people in Ancient Greece at the time, so they would not want to end up in the underworld after death. This reminded me of how maps and landscapes years ago would sometimes influence people's decisions to flock to different locations to visit.