1. Greek Underworld

2. Enter the Abode of the Dead

3. Acheron
The river of woe, sadness or affliction

4. Charon the boatman
Ferried souls across Acheron. If they didn’t have payments the soul would wander on the banks of Acheron forever.

5. Shades
To the Greeks, the soul was a pale reflection of its former personality, a shade of its former self.

6. Hades: Erebus, Tartarus and the Elysium Fields
Erebus – all the dead had to pass here – perhaps a limbo. Judgment came later.

7. The judges Aeacus – Europeans Rhadamanthus – Asiatics
Minos – difficult cases
Shades were sent to either Tartarus or Elysium

8. Cocytus – river of lamentation or wailing

9. The Fates
The ones who spun, measured and cut the thread of life.

10. Nemesis - the spirit of divine retribution against those who succumb to hubris, vengeful fate personified as a remorseless goddess. Also – just rewards.

11. The Furies
With serpents for hair and blood dripping from their eyes, they pursued sinners on earth but lived in the underworld.

12. Hecate
Queen of the dead and goddess of magic charms and enchantments. You may remember her from Macbeth.

13. The River Styx
Had nine loops and surrounded the underworld. If a god swore by her, the oath was irrevocable.

14. Cerberus
The watchdog at the gates of Tartarus.

15. Tartarus
Where sinners endured punishment

16. The Abode of the Dead Tanatos/Mors – death
Hypnos/Somnus – Sleep, brother of death
Morpheus – son of sleep and god of dreams

17. Lethe
The river of forgetfulness

18. Elysium Fields
Eternal bliss

19. Hades and Persephone