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The entrance to the Underworld
Aremus
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Where did all the troubled souls wander aimlessly?
Acheron
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Paradise where the favorites of the gods went. Who were the favorites?
- Elysium
- noted bards and great heroes
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where did all those go who the gods decided to punish?
Tartarus
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Name the 5 rivers
- Styx
- Lethe
- Acheron
- Phlegethon
- Cocytus
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the river where the dead were ferried across by Charon
Styx
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River of Forgetfulness
Lethe
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River where fire flowed instead of water
Phlegethon
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Who was Charon?
- ferried dead across Styx
- his pay was an obolus
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Who was Cerberus?
- monstrous dog
- guardian of Hades
- three heads
- tail of dragon
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Who were the furies?
- attended to Proserpina
- punished people who had escaped punishment for their crimes
- afflicted them with horrors of a guilty conscience
- also called Eumenides
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Who was Hecate?
goddess of witchcraft and sorcery
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Who was Somnus
god of sleep
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Who was Mors?
- god of death
- brother of Somnus
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Who was Morpheus?
guardian of dreams
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Who was Tantalus?
- monarch who the gods favored but he killed his son and committed many other crimes
- never ending thirst and hunger, food and water just out of his reach
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Who was Ixion?
- murdered his father in law
- chained to a wheel that forever rolled down a hill
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Who was Sissyphus?
- king of Corinth but promoted fraud
- roll a huge marble block up hill and it would always roll back down and he'd have to start over
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Danaides?
- daughters of Danaus (king of Argos)
- murdered their husbands
- compelled to carry water in vain
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Who was Orpheus?
- sun of the Mus Calliope and Apollo
- Apollo gave him a lyre
- enchanted everyone and everything with his playing
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Who was Eurydice?
- married Orpheus
- died after two years from snake bite
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What did Orpheus do?
- Orpheus went down to the Underworld and enchanted everyone with his playing, making his way to the palace
- There he played and begged Pluto and Proserpina to give him his wife back
- They consented as long as he promised not to look behind him
- At the end he looked back to check on her but she disappeared
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How did Orpheus die?
- He went through depression for awhile
- He refused to play with the Maenads and so they threw rocks at his head, killing him
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What was another name for Hades?
Erebus
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