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Acheron | One of the five rivers of the underworld; River of Woe; river that led to Hades |
Aeneas | Trojan hero; Son of Anchises and Aphrodite; Founder of the Roman race |
Cerberus | a 3 headed dog that stopped the dead from leaving the Underworld |
Charon | opperator of the riverboat that led the dead across the river Styx |
Dis | A god predating Pluto with many of the same qualities |
Elysian Fields | A paradise where heroes went once they died |
Eurydice | The love of Orpheus |
Ixion | After trying to seduce Hera was punished by being attached to a spinning wheel |
Lake Avernis | Thought to be te entrance to the underworld |
Lethe | A river in the underworld that when drank from would erase memories |
Midas | king who was cursed to turn things into gold |
Orpheus | A great muscian who went looking for his wife in the Underworld |
Osiris | An Egyptian version of Dionysus |
Persephone | Wife of Hades, she spends 6 months in te Underworld |
Phlegethon | A flaming river |
Pluto | Husband of Proserpina, king of the Underworld |
Proserpina | Wife of Pluto, queen of the Underworld |
Sibyl | A great prophet who's prophecies were handed down through written books |
Sisyphus | A man who was punished by having to roll a bolder up a hill, for cheating death |
Styx | A river in the underworld that Charon leds the dead across |
Tantalus | A man punished for stealing divine food and feeding his son to the gods |