Hades: The God and his Domain Trivia Quiz

Answer: 11

Homer's "Odyssey" is the earliest account of the underworld in which Odysseus approaches the entrance. Here he performs the ritual of Nekuia, where he pours out blood into a pit to summon the souls of the dead to drink.

Answer: Aeacus

Minos and Rhadamanthus were the other two judges. Minos is the legendary king of Crete and Rhadamanthus was his brother. Milanion challenged Atalanta to a footrace and won by throwing golden apples on the ground. In other versions of the myth Hippomenes is accredited with this feat.

Answer: Orcus

All of these are associated with the Underworld. Hades means "the unseen one", Pluto is the Roman version of his name, and Dis means "the wealthy one."

Answer: Chthonian

Not only is Hades called Chthonian, but this name is also attached to his realm and its inhabitants. This name refers to anything of the earth, as apposed to anything Olympian or of the upper air.

Answer: Tityus

Ixion was punished by being attached to a flaming wheel. Tantalus was punished by standing in a pool of water he couldn't drink from under apple trees he couldn't eat from. As for Prometheus, an eagle instead of a vulture ate out his liver every day upon a mountain instead of in the underworld. Tricky tricky...

Answer: Lethe

As souls began to depart from the Elysian fields to be reborn on Earth, they drank from the Lethe (the river of forgetfulness) to forget their past life. The Cocytus was the river of wailing, the Styx was the river of hate, or of unbreakable promises, and the Acheron was the river of woe.

Answer: unrequited lovers

Virgil had different levels of hell for different categories of crimes committed while alive. This vision of hell was probably the main influence on Dante's vision in "The Inferno".

Answer: Megara

Megara was actually the wife of Herakles whom he murdered in a madness induced by Hera. This crime led to his punishment serving king Eurystheus, for whom he performed the twelve labors.

Answer: Perseus

Psyche entered the underworld after being sent by Venus to fetch her some of Proserpina's beauty. Aeneas entered the underworld with the Sibyl of Cumae to speak with his dead father, Anchises. Pirithous was a friend of Theseus who went down to the underworld with Theseus to steal Proserpina as a wife.

They were tricked into sitting in chairs that didn't let them get up, but Hercules came and rescued Theseus, leaving Pirithous behind.

Answer: Eumenides

The ancients used such a flattering and obviously misleading name for the Furies because they feared that calling the Furies what they really were would anger them, causing them to come after you.