Underworld Myths

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Across
  1. 1. The River of Sorrow (along with the Styx, sometimes the river needing crossed to enter the Underworld)
  2. 4. punished the souls in Tartarus
  3. 5. one of Hades' Roman names
  4. 8. The Homeric _____ to Demeter has a version of Persephone being kidnapped to the Underworld
  5. 12. _______ as opposed to Olympian deities
  6. 13. the name of a hero's decent into the Underworld
  7. 14. a group of deities sent to Tartarus as punishment
  8. 16. prophet that Odysseus sees in the Underworld
  9. 17. number of heads Cerberus usually has
  10. 19. the Fate who reveals his fate in Claudian's De Raptu Proserpina
  11. 20. the Greek personification of Night
  12. 24. Hero sent to retrieve Cerberus as his 12th labor
  13. 25. another of Hades' Roman names as god of wealth
  14. 26. generic name of the land of the dead
  15. 27. the ferryman of Greco-Roman Underworld mythology
  16. 29. last name of the author of Paradise Lost
  17. 31. King of the Underworld
  18. 34. Platonic Underworld judge with the longest name
  19. 35. Persephone ate some of this fruit in the Underworld
  20. 37. author of the Aeneid (e spelling variation)
  21. 38. flower that grows in the Underworld
  22. 40. singer who tries to bring his love back to life
  23. 41. him and his buddy Pirithous try to kidnap Persephone
  24. 42. If Hecataeus' theory is right, the "hound of Hades" Cerberus is actually this creature
  25. 43. punished with unreachable fruit and water
Down
  1. 2. the Sumerian queen of the nether world
  2. 3. punished with continuously rolling a boulder up a hill
  3. 6. the god in charge of weighing souls in Egyptian mythology
  4. 7. portion of the Underworld where people are punished
  5. 9. the Greek personification of Death
  6. 10. Roman author who briefly mentions Persephone as "detesting heaven and her mother"
  7. 11. last name of the author of Inferno
  8. 15. The River of Oaths
  9. 18. the portion of the Underworld with the highest regard, also known as the "Blessed Isle"
  10. 21. the Greek personification of Sleep
  11. 22. Mother of Persephone
  12. 23. 3-headed guard dog of the Underworld
  13. 24. author of the Odyssey
  14. 28. Olympian psychopomp ("guide of souls" to the afterlife)
  15. 30. the Sumerian goddess who descends to the nether world
  16. 32. name of the Egyptian Underworld
  17. 33. The River of Forgetfulness
  18. 35. The River of Fire
  19. 36. Goddess of Spring & Queen of the Underworld
  20. 39. The River of Lamentation, always frozen, sometimes a lake