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In Greek mythology, Rhadamanthus (/ ˌ r æ d ə ˈ m æ n θ ə s /) or Rhadamanthys (Ancient Greek: Ῥαδάμανθυς) was a wise king of Crete. As the son of Zeus and Europa he was considered a demigod. He later became one of the judges of the dead and an important figure in Greek mythology.
In Greek mythology, the underworld or Hades (Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Háidēs) is a distinct realm (one of the three realms that make up the cosmos) where an individual goes after death. The earliest idea of afterlife in Greek myth is that, at the moment of death, an individual's essence ( psyche ) is separated from the corpse and ...
Rhadamanthus judged Asian souls, Aeacus judged European souls and Minos was the deciding vote and judge of the Greek. [18] Souls regarded as unjust or perjured would go to Tartarus. [ 18 ] Those who committed crimes seen as curable would be purified there, while those who committed crimes seen as uncurable would be eternally damned, and ...
Aeacus (/ ˈ iː ə k ə s /; also spelled Eacus; Ancient Greek: Αἰακός) was a king of the island of Aegina in Greek mythology.He was a son of Zeus and the nymph Aegina, and the father of the heroes Peleus and Telamon. [1]
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Next, Aeneas encounters Charon, the ferryman who leads souls into the Underworld, and the mass of people who are unburied. [22] His first conversation is with Palinurus, a man of his crew who fell overboard and died on their journey. Palinurus begs Aeneas to bury him so he can enter the Underworld. [23]
The circle of lust introduces Dante's depiction of King Minos, the judge of hell; this portrayal derives from the role of Minos in the Greek underworld in the works of Virgil and Homer. Dante also depicts a number of historical and mythological figures within the second circle, although chief among these are Francesca da Rimini and Paolo ...
The Shade of Tiresias Appearing to Odysseus during the Sacrifice (c. 1780-85), painting by Johann Heinrich Füssli, showing a scene from Book Eleven of the Odyssey. In ancient Greek cult-practice and literature, a nekyia or nekya (Ancient Greek: νέκυια, νεκυία; νεκύα) is a "rite by which ghosts were called up and questioned about the future," i.e., necromancy.