The Asphodel Meadows is a section of the Ancient Greek underworld where indifferent and ordinary souls were sent to live after death. Hades, the Greek name for the underworld (also the name of the god Hades) is divided into two main sections: Erebus and Tartarus. Erebus was were the dead first entered the underworld. Charon ferried the dead across the river Acheron where they then went into Tartarus. Tartarus is the section of the underworld where the dead would spend all of eternity in the place where judgment would order them. Tartarus is then divided into three subsections: the Elysian Fields, the Asphodel Meadows, and Tartarus. The Elysian Fields was for the good and heroic souls where they would be forever happy, similar to Christian Heaven. Tartarus was where the evil and treacherous souls were sent to live out eternity in horrible punishment, similar to the Christian Hell. In Greek mythology, the underworld indicate the kingdom of deaths. ... Persephone, the Maiden: the late Archaic Kore of Antenor from the Acropolis, Athens In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Περσεφόνη, Persephónē) was the queen of the Underworld, the Kore or young maiden, and the daughter of Demeter. ... ... In Greek mythology, Minos was a semi-legendary king of Crete, son of Zeus and Europa. ... In Greek mythology, Aeacus (Greek: Aiakos, bewailing or earth borne) was king in the island of Aegina in the Saronic Gulf. ... Rhadamanthus (also transliterated as Rhadamanthys or Rhadamanthos) in Greek mythology was a son of Zeus and Europa and brother of Minos, king of Crete and Sarpedon. ... In Greek mythology, Charon (Greek Χάρων, fierce brightness) was the ferryman of Hades. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Acheron river is in the Epirus region of north west Greece. ... In Greek mythology, Cocytus, meaning river of wailing (Greek kokutos, lamentation) was the river in the underworld on the banks of which the dead who could not pay Charon wandered, according to most accounts, for one hundred years. ... In Greek mythology, Tartarus, or Tartaros, is both a deity and a place in the underworld — even lower than Hades. ... In Classical Greek, Lethe literally means forgetfulness or concealment. The Greek word for truth is a-lethe-ia, meaning un-forgetfulness or un-concealment. In Greek mythology, Lethe is one of the several rivers of Hades. ... In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Underworld (the spelling Elysium is a Latinization of the Greek word Elysion). ... For other uses, see Styx River (disambiguation) In Greek mythology, Styx (Στυξ) is the name of a river which formed the boundary between earth and the underworld, Hades. ... In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon ([river of] fire) was one of the five rivers of the underworld. ... In Greek mythology, Erebus, or Érebos was a primordial god, the personification of darkness, offspring of Chaos alone. ... This article is about the Greek myth. ... Sisyphus (Greek Σίσυφος; transliteration: Sísuphos; IPA: ), in Greek mythology, was a sinner punished in the underworld by being set to roll a huge rock up a hill throughout eternity. ... In Greek mythology Tantalus (Greek Τάνταλος) was a son of Zeus and the nymph Plouto (riches), not to be confused with the god of the underworld. ... In Greek mythology, the Titans (Greek Τιτάν, plural Τιτάνες) were a race of powerful deities that ruled during the legendary Golden Age. ... // Greek mythology consists in part in a large collection of narratives that explain the origins of the world and detail the lives and adventures of a wide variety of gods, goddesses, heroes, and heroines. ... Greek religion is the polytheistic religion practiced in ancient Greece in form of cult practices, thus the practical counterpart of Greek mythology. ... In Greek mythology, the underworld indicate the kingdom of deaths. ... ... Charon may refer to: Charon (mythology) - the figure from Greek, and later Christian mythology, who ferried the dead across the river Acheron in the underworld Hades and Hell, respectively. ... This is Illyria, lady. ... Heaven is an afterlife concept found in many religions or spiritual philosophies. ... Medieval illustration of Hell in the Hortus deliciarum manuscript of Herrad of Landsberg (about 1180) Hell, according to many religious beliefs, is a place or a state of pain and suffering. ...

Geography

The Asphodel Meadows is where the souls of people who lived lives of near equal good and evil rested. It was essentially plains of Asphodel flower which was the favorire food of the greek dead. It is described as a ghostly place that is an even less perfect version of life on earth. Flower and fruits The Asphodel (Asphodelus ramosus, family Asphodelaceae in APG II, formerly in Liliaceae) is the flower said to fill the plains of Hades, the mythological Greek underworld. ...

Popular culture

In the computer game, Age of Mythology, shades, or the ghostly forms of the greek dead appear to help the followers of Hades and Arkantos in the campaigns. They are described to live in a land "that was not necessarily horrible, but without honor or glory. If anything, shades were pitied more than feared". Presumably, this land is the Asphodel Meadows as it describes neither torture nor happiness. Age of Mythology (sometimes abbreviated AoM) is a real-time strategy computer game by Ensemble Studios. ...