![]() ![]() ![]() The mythographer Apollodorus, describes Tartarus as "a gloomy place in Hades as far distant from Earth, as Earth is distant from the sky." Greek mythographers were not perfectly consistent about the geography of the afterlife. There were several sections of the realm of Hades, including Elysium, the Asphodel Meadows, and Tartarus. Later Greek philosophy introduced the idea that all mortals are judged after death and are either rewarded or cursed. Even Odysseus in his Nekyia (Odyssey, XI) calls up the spirits of the departed, rather than descend to them. The exceptions, Heracles and Theseus, are heroic. Very few mortals could leave Hades once they entered. In older Greek myths, the realm of Hades is the misty and gloomy abode of the dead (also called Erebus) where all mortals go when they die. ![]() Phandelver and Below: The Shattered Obelisk Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse ![]()
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