underworld

• greek and roman beliefs about the underworld

  • all went to the underworld, neither heaven nor hell
  • the underworld was hades realm, only hermes and dionysus allowed to enter out of the olympians
  • Olympians swore by the river styx
  • Heroes often entered the underworld while being alive
• greek entrance to the underworld

  Nekromanteion - had a temple on the banks of the achron near epirus - apparently flowed into the underworld
• Roman entrance to the underworld

  Solfatara - near the bay of naples, oracles there