![]() Elysium FieldsĮlysium was a place for the especially distinguished. Sisyphus, who disrupted the income of souls by tricking and chaining up Thanatos, is condemned to push a heavy rock up a slope, only to have it roll back down each time. Tantalus, who betrayed the trust of the gods, is suffering torment by having food and drink eternally beyond his reach. It is the place reserved for mortals who had greatly offended the gods. ![]() It is so dark that the "night is poured around it in three rows like a collar round the neck, while above it grow the roots of the earth and of the unharvested sea." Tartarus is the place that Zeus cast the Titans along with his father Cronus after defeating them. ![]() Tartarus was not considered to be directly a part of the underworld, it was described as being as far beneath the underworld as the earth is beneath the sky. Hades himself would make the individual's punishment of eternal suffering based on their specific crime. The Fields of Punishment was the place for those who had created havoc on the world and committed crimes specifically against the gods. It was where mortals who did not belong anywhere else in the Underworld were sent. The Asphodel Meadows was the place for ordinary or indifferent souls who did not commit any significant crimes, but who also did not achieve any greatness or recognition that would warrant them being admitted to the Elysian Fields. According to Plato, this river led to the depths of Tartarus. It is associated with the goddess Lethe, or the goddess of forgetfulness and oblivion. According to Euripides, it is the river that Charon, also known as the Ferryman, rows the dead in the ferry across the Styx to enter Hades. It is said that this river circles the underworld nine times. It is known as the river of hatred and is named after the goddess Styx.
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