Greece - Greek Dying - Death - Afterlife

A look at some of the main gods and goddesses of the Greek Underworld.

This is a handy list of warriors in the Iliad that shows who did the killing, his victims, and the method of inflicting death.

The three-headed, serpent-tailed dog Cerberus was the offspring of Echidna and Typhon.

Tholos tombs were also known as beehive tombs.

Shaft graves at Mycenae were used to buy warrior chieftains.

Information on ancient ghosts and how to placate them from ancient literature.

In Thucydides' Peloponnesian War, Pericles delivers the eulogy at the burial of the first to fall in the Peloponnesian War.

"Til Death Do Us Part: Marriage and Funeral Rites in Classical Athens," by Jana Shopkorn. Similarities between the two rituals in Classical Athens.

Map, by Carlos Parada, showing Odysseus and Vergil's travels in the Underworld.

Meal sharing was important in ancient religious practices. Meals at funerals were thought to feed the dead.

Sisyphus went to the Underworld at least twice but wound up having to pay the price for his craftiness with a punishment for all eternity in Tartarus.