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Map of the Underworld & Information on Atlantis

The Underworld is the land of the dead. I haven't been able to find a public domain map of the Underworld, and why should I? There haven't been too many people who visited and lived to tell about it and of those who did, well... let's just say Orpheus was a musician, not a cartographer.

Still, heroes Aeneas and Odysseus do describe the Underworld, and other literary references give us some idea of what the Ancient Greeks and Romans thought they'd find there after they crossed over in Charon's ferry. (When ancient people died, they needed a coin to pay Charon's fare.)

Map of the Underworld
By Carlos Parada, a map showing where Odysseus and Aeneas traveled in the Underworld, the land of the dead. Also Islands of the Blest.

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