underworld

Question 1

Acheron

Answer 1

river of pain and woe

Question 2

Lethe

Answer 2

river of forgetfulness

Question 3

Phlegethon

Answer 3

river of fire

Question 4

Cocytus

Answer 4

river of wailing

Question 5

Styx

Answer 5

river of hate and unbreakable oaths

Question 6

Entrance to Underworld

Answer 6

cave

Question 7

Hermes

Answer 7

led people to the cave/entrance

Question 8

Charon

Answer 8

ferryman, led people across the Acheron or styx

Question 9

Who would be denied transportation by Charon

Answer 9

those who couldn’t pay or the unburied

Question 10

Tantalus

Answer 10

kills and feeds his son to the gods, is punished by food and water evading him

Question 11

Sisyphus

Answer 11

chained and tricked thanatos, is punished by pushing a boulder up a hill for eternity

Question 12

Salmoneous

Answer 12

brother of sisyphus, impersonated zues, unnamed punishment

Question 13

Ixion

Answer 13

first murder ever, sleeps with cloud hera (first centaur born from this), punished by being bound to a spinning wheel of fire

Question 14

Danaids

Answer 14

50 sisters who marry 50 sons, 49 kill their husbands by their father’s orders and are punished by having to fill a tub with holes in it