Achilles
- was the bravest, handsomest, and greatest warrior of the army of Agamemnon in the Trojan War and a son of Peleus, king of the Myrimidons and the nereid or sea nymph, Thetis.
Arcadia
- is well known in Greek mythology as the home of the god of the wild, Pan with his court of dryads, nymphs, and other creature. It is a region in the central Peloponnese of Greece.
Cerberus
- often referred to as the 'hound of Hades', is a multi-headed dog that guards the gates of the Underworld to prevent the dead from leaving.
Obolus
- a small silver coin, valued at one-sixth of a drachma, placed in the mouths of the dead, as passage-money for Charon the ferryman in the Underworld.
Stymphalian Birds
- are man-eating birds with beaks of bronze, sharp metallic feathers they could launch at their victims, and poisonous dung that were usually depicted as pets of the goddess of the hunt, Artemis or had been brought-up by the god of war, Ares.
The Nemean Games
- were one of the four Panhellenic Games of Ancient Greece, and were held at Nemea every two years.
The Shield of Aegis
- is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon.
-The Regions of the Underworld-
The Elysian Fields
- Elysium or the Elysian Fields is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults. Initially separate from the realm of Hades, admission was reserved for mortals related to the gods and other heroes.
The Fields of Mourning
- is a region of the underworld reserved for souls who wasted their lives on unrequited love.
The Asphodel Meadows
- is a region in the Greek underworld where ordinary souls of the dead or where the souls of people who lived lives of near equal good and evil rested.
Tartarus
- the deepest region of the Underworld depicted as 'far beneath Hades as heaven is above earth' and is originally known as the dungeon of the rebels against the pantheon of the gods in Greek mythology.
-The Five Rivers of the Underworld-
Acheron
- the river of sorrow and pain, black and deep.
Cocytus
- the river of lamentation and wailing.
Phlegethon
- the river of fire, possibly leading to the depths of Tartarus.
Styx
- the river of hatred and unbreakable oaths; the gods are often depicted as taking vows by its waters.
Lethe
- the river of oblivion and forgetfulness, out of which the dead souls are obliged to drink so that they can forget their earthly lives in preparation for a possible reincarnation
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Sources:
https://www.theoi.com/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
https://www.britannica.com/
https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/10-expressions-from-ancient-world4.htm
https://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/Places/The_Underworld/the_underworld.html
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