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Mythology
The Underworld
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Classics
Undergraduate 2
05/06/2008

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Arethusa
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the river/spring who's constantly crying and travels around Hades; tips Demeter off to Persephone's whereabouts
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Celeus
Definition
King of Eleusis
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Cerberus
Definition
3-headed dog guarded the gates of hell
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Demophoon
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Infant son of the Eleusisian royalty
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Eleusis
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Land where Demeter settles down briefly
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Eurydice
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Orpheus' beloved, bitten by a snake
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Helios
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One of the witnesses to Persephone's kidnapping
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Ixion
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lashed to a burning wheel of fire; had sex with cloud-Hera
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Metaneira
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Queen of Eleusis; mother of Demophoon
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Sisyphos
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Another sinner in hell; rolls a boulder uphill all the time; kept cheating death
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Tantalos
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condemned to stand in a lake and never eat or drink; served his son's flesh to the gods
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Tityos
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Tried to usurp Zeus by having sex with Ledo; chained to a rock and liver eaten by eagles
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