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VI. CHARACTERS OF THE UNDERWORLD
Hades - King of the Underworld ("Dis" = "rich", another name for Hades)
Persephone - Queen of the Underworld
Charon - Old Boatman
Cerberus - Three-headed Watchdog
Erebus - deepest section
Tartarus: place of eternal punishment
This is the eternal punishment of the following persons:
- Sisyphus - must push a rock up a hill
- Tantalus - stands in pool of water; with a bough of fruit above his head;
he is always thirsty and hungry.
- Danaids - 49 of 50 daughters of Danaus, killed their husbands on their
wedding night. Punishment - to carry water in leaky jars.
Elysian Fields - place similar to "Heaven" - isle of the blessed
Rhadamanthus, Minos, Aeacus - judges of the Underworld
Rivers
- Styx - dead souls crossed; river of unbreakable oaths
- Lethe - river of forgetfulness
- Acheron - river of woe
- Phlegethon - river of fire
- Cocytus - river of wailing
Furies, or (Erinyes) - 3 Bird-like women with snakey hair; punish evil doers
Thanatos - (Orcus) King of the Dead
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