The Journey into the Underworld

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The Journey into the Underworld

• What mortals journey into the Underworld and
  survive?

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Acheron The river of woe, sadness, or affliction

• Son of Gaea but quenched the thirst of the Titans
  during the Titan/Olympian war, and Zeus threw him
  into the underworld to become its first river.

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Charon the Ferry Operator
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Obolus the coin of payment
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Erebus The Vestibule

• This is a place of limbo where all the dead had
  to pass.

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Erebus, Tartarus and the Elysium Fields
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The Judges All sons of Zeus

• Aeacus Judged the Europeans
• Former King of Agenia
• Mother Agenia
• Rhadamanthus Judged the Asia
• Brother of Minos Abodes in Elysium
• Mother Europa
• Minos Judged the difficult cases
• Final Decision King of Crete
• Mother Europa

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The Soul was a pale reflection of its former self

• Which judge of souls lived the same in the
  underworld as on earth?

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Cocytus The River of Lamentation or wailing

• Who will you run
• into on this
• river?

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The Fates

• If the thread is not cut then the person is not
  dead!

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The Fate Sisters

• Where in the movie Clash of the Titans do you see
  these women?

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The FuriesPursue sinners on earth but lived in
the underworld

• Serpents in their hair blood dripping from their
  eyes!

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Nemesis

• Spirit of Just Punishment
• Goddess of Retribution
• Sister to the Fates
• Divine arbiter of justice Just Rewards!

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Hecate

• Queen of the Dead

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The River Styx Nine Loops that surround the
underworld

• Styx was the daughter of the
• Titans and helped the
• Olympians in the war so she
• became the river of gods.
• If a god swore by her, the oath was irrevocable.

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Tartarus Land of Punishment

• Name three Titans you would find in this section.

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Cerberus watchdog at the gates of
TartarusThree heads venom dripping from all his
mouths with a dragons tail.
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Phlegethon The River of Fire
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Sisyphus

• He escaped the underworld to return to earth.
  Recaptured for his trickery, comdemned!

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Sisyphus

• What is the lesson of this punishment?

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Tartarus

• Tantalizing
• Forever Hungry
• Forever Thirsty

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Ixion

• Wheel of Fire

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Ixion

• Showed disrespect for the gods and attempted to
  win the love of Hera.
• Condemned to roll forever
• on a wheel
• of fire throughout
• Tartarus!

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The Danaids

• Guilty of murdering their husbands on their
  wedding
• night!
• Punishment
• fill a barrel with
• water from a nearby
• stream, but the water
• had to be carried
• sieves.

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Elysium Fields

• The place of eternal happiness.
• The Abode of Sleep.

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Thanatos Brother of Sleep

• "I win greater honor when
• the victims are young.
• Thanatos to Apollo.
• Thanatos is the son of Nyx,
• but no matter how you describe
• him, he is a creature of bone
• chilling darkness. From on high,
• Helios (the Sun)
• never casts his light on Death. (Theogony, line
  760)

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Hypnos/Somnus

• Hypnos goes kindly among the mortals but, his
  brother, Thanatos has a heart made of pitiless
  iron. When he takes hold of you, the world of
  light ceases to be.
• Hypnos/Somnus (sleep).
• Morpheus son of sleep and god of dreams.

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Lethe River of Forgetfulness

• One cup of water from the river and the soul
  forgot its past . From there, the soul moved
  into the Elysium Fields, the enjoyment of the
  Happy Isles, where soft breezes always blew!

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Persephones Grove

• Black poplars and sterile willows, for nothing
  truly fruitful could bloom in the underworld.
  Finally the soul would see the King and Queen of
  Hades.

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Hades and Persephone
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Hades, God of the Underworld
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Who can you identify from Hades?
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