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In the Realm of Hades Trivia Quiz
Twelve of the items in this collection are associated with Hades, the Greek god of the Underworld, and ten are associated with other gods in the Greek Pantheon. Choose those that belong in the realm of Hades.
A collection quiz
by tiye.
Estimated time: 3 mins.
Select the twelve items that are associated with Hades, the Greek god of the Underworld.
There are 12 correct entries. Get 3 incorrect and the game ends.
Persephone, Hades' consort and queen of the Underworld, was also his niece, the daughter of Hades' sister, Demeter. When Hades abducted her, he gave her to eat six pomegranate seeds, the fruit of the dead and, thus, Persephone spends six months with him in the darkness and six months with her mother above ground, in the light.
Cerberus, the three-headed dog, was Hades' pet and the guardian of the doors to his kingdom.
Charon was the ferryman who transported the dead to the Underworld in a boat, across the river Acheron, the river of sorrow.
Minthe or Menthe was a nymph, the daughter of the river Cocytus, and when Hades fell in love with her, his wife and her mother transformed her into the mint plant, also called hedyosmos or dyosmos in Greek, meaning sweet-smelling. Cypress was the sacred tree of the ruler of the underworld and it was planted near the graves, a tradition that was carried to the Christian Orthodox cemeteries.
The Elysian Fields was the section of the Underworld where heroes and people of esteem and bravery went and Tartarus was the opposite, the equivalent of Hell, where the wicked and evil men were tormented eternally.
Lethe was one of the five rivers of the Underworld, the river of forgetfulness that all the dead had to drink from and forget their earthly lives.
Rhadamanthus was a wise king of Crete who became one of the judges of the dead, along with his brothers Aeacus and Minos.
Alastor was a black horse, one of the four horses drawing the chariot of Hades.
Finally, Pluto was Hades' Roman name.
From the wrong choices, Laurel and Leto are associated with the god Apollo, Orion with Artemis, the Parthenon and the owl with Athena, the thunderbolt and Europa with Zeus, the dolphin with Poseidon, the swan with Hera and Eris is associated with Ares.
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