A 3-headed dog that guards the entrance to the underworld.
What is Cerberus
100
According to Virgil, this is where the entrance to the Underworld is in our world.
What is Mount Vesuvius
100
He is the main character of Virgil's "Aeneid".
Who is Aeneas
100
He is forced to roll a boulder up a hill, but as soon as he reaches the top the boulder rolls down again.
Who is Sisyphus
100
This Roman God was the ruler of the Underworld.
Who is Pluto
200
Half birds, half women. These creatures tortured those who had done bad things in life and watched over dead souls. Discord and Tsiphone are examples of the latter.
What are Furies
200
This landmark was known as the river of wailing. It was where Charon took the dead souls on his boat to the Underworld. It is also known as the River Styx in Greek Mythology.
What is the River Cocytus
200
She was the Queen of Carthage who killed herself when her lover Aeneas left her.
Who is Dido
200
He was "tantalized" with food and water. However as he reached for such things they fled from him. He is now forever hungry and thirsty.
Who is Tantalus
200
This landmark is known as the river of fire.
What is the Phlegethon River
300
The ferryman of the dead. Refused to let souls through to the underworld unless they had their burial rites. Not to be confused with the Grim Reaper.
Who is Charon
300
This was where the the titans were sent after losing a war to the gods. Surrounded by the Phlegethon River.
What is Tartarus
300
The father of Aeneas. He spends his death in the Elysian Fields
Who is Anchises
300
He is forever fastened to a fiery wheel that never stops revolving.
Who is Ixion
300
This talented musician played the lyre and entertained the people in Elysium in Virgil's "Aeneid".
Who is Orpheus
400
This creature guards the entrance of the judgement hall of Radamanthus. It has 50 heads and each time one is cut off two grow back in its place
What is the Hydra
400
This was where heroes of war and other great people came when they died. "The groves where the happy reside."
What is Elysium
400
This person guided Aeneas on his trip to the Underworld. Also known as an oracle.
Who is the Sibyll
400
This giant who stretches over 9 acres as he lies is eternally tortured by a vulture which eats his liver, which as fast as it is eaten, grows back again.
Who is Tityus
400
Radamanthus' brother who is also a judge of the dead.
Who is Minos
500
This race warred against Jupiter and the Gods. They were eventually defeated and sent to the pits of Tartarus
Who are the Titans
500
Souls to whom bodies would be given in due time wandered next to the banks of this river that cut through a tranquil landscape with swaying trees.
What is the Lethe River
500
He is one of the judges of the dead. "Here is the judgement hall of ___________, who brings to light crimes done in life, which the perpetrator vainly thought impenetrably hid."
Who is Rhadamantus
500
This Titan was bounded to a stone and would have his liver eaten by an Eagle. He received this punishment from Zeus for bringing fire to the humans.
Who is Prometheus
500
This Roman God led souls of the recently dead to the entrance of the Underworld and opened it with his key called a caduceus.