Underworld

• Charon is the immortal ferryman
• The three judges are Minos, Rhadamanthus & Aeacus
• Cerberus guards the entrance to the Underworld.

  He can't stop anyone from entering but he prevents everyone from exiting.
• Elysium is where heroes go after death, a place of eternal happiness in the Isle of the Blest
• Tartarus is where the worst criminals go
• The Fields of Asphodel are where the souls of those who are neither bad nor good are left to wander forever
• Sisyphus cheated death twice
• Atlas led the Titan army in an attempt to overthrow Zeus
• Tantalus fed his children to the gods
• Prometheus was punished by being chained to a rock and having his liver pecked out by eagles everyday for eternally.
• Atlas was punished by being made to carry the sky on his shoulders.
• Sisyphus was forced to push a boulder up a hill only for it to roll back down again
• Tantalus was punished by:

  • Being chained in a garden of fruit with a stream of water
  • Every time he would reach for fruit or water it would move away
• What was Tantalus's crime


  He fed his children to the gods
• When buried, all souls must have a coin on their eye or under their tongue
• If the deceased doesn't have a coin then they are forced to wait 100 years
• The titans resided in Tartarus