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1
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place for heroes and most good descendants of gods

A

elysian fields

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place for most average people

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fields of asphodel

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3
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place for bad guys

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tartarus

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4
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3 judges of underworld

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minos, rhadamanthys, aeacus

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5
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dude who ferried souls across styx/acheron rivers

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charon

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6
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river for oaths

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styx

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7
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river of forgetfulness

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lethe

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8
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river of woe

A

acheron

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9
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river of wailing

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cocytus

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10
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river of fire

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phlegethon

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dude who killed his wife’s dad and tried to seduce hera

A

ixion

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12
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ixion’s wife

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dea

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13
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dea’s father

A

eniopeus

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14
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cloud goddess who disguised as hera

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nephele

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15
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child of nephele and ixion

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centaurus

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ixion’s punishment

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tied to flaming, spinning wheel

17
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dude who fed his son to the gods

A

tantalus

18
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tantalus’s son

A

pelops

19
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goddess who ate the pelops soup

A

demeter

20
Q

tantalus’s punishment

A

on an island with fruit and water that retracts when he tries to get it

21
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chicks who killed their incestuous husbands

A

49 danaids

22
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dainaids’s dad

A

danaus

23
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danaus’s brother

A

aegyptus

24
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chick who fell in love with her incestuous husband

A

hypermnestra

25
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hypermnestra’s husband

A

lynceus

26
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danaids’s punishment

A

carry waters in leaky jars

27
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dude who tried to seduce leto and was shot by artemis and apollo

A

tityus

28
Q

tityus’s punishment

A

gets liver eaten by vulture

29
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dude who impersonated zeus

A

salmoneus

30
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salmoneus’s punishment

A

got killed by zeus, nobody knows what his underworld one was

31
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dude who asked oracle of delphi how to kill his brother salmoneus and it told him to have kids with his daughter

A

sisyphus

32
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salmoneus’s daughter who killed her kids

A

tyro

33
Q

sisyphus’s punishment

A

roll a boulder that rolls down a mountain

34
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dude who had to braid a rope that got eaten by a donkey

A

ocnus

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