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Simon Thomas announces his wife Derrina Jebb is pregnant with their first child - five years after the tragic death of his first wife GemmaĪmy Jackson puts on a VERY leggy display in a little black dress as she steps out during Venice Film Festival with her boyfriend Ed Westwick VIDEO: Discovering Early European Societies: It's like Hades, complete with its own River Styx. 'The burial sites and rituals that took place really do give the cave an underworld feel. 'You have to imagine the place torchlit, filled with people lighting bonfires and burying the dead. 'Alepotrypa existed right before the Bronze Age in Mycenaean Greece, so we're kind of seeing the beginnings of things that produced the age of heroes in Greece. The cave really does recall the underworld, Hades and the River Styx. Researcher Michael Galaty, an archaeologist at Millsaps College in Jackson, Missorri, told LiveScience: 'You can easily see why Giorgos would make that hypothesis. The first archaeologist to ever dig inside Alepotrypa, Giorgos Papathanassopoulos, suggests that the Neolithic residents believed the cave was Hades. Once across the rivers an adamantine gate, guarded by Cerberus, forms the entrance to the kingdom.Īrchaeologists have now uncovered tools, pottery, obsidian, silver and copper artifacts that date back to the Neolithic Age, which began in Greece began around 9,000 years ago, soon before the Stone Age.īut the most important find - that the cave was used as a cemetery and for burial rituals - has led researchers to believe it could have inspired the legend of Hades' underworld.

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Geographically, the underworld is surrounded by a series of rivers: The Acheron (river of woe), The Cocytus (river of lamentation), The Phlegethon (river of fire), The Styx (river of unbreakable oath by which the gods swear), and The Lethe (river of forgetfulness). When the victorious brothers then drew lots for the division of the cosmos, Hades received the third portion, the dark dismal realm of the underworld, as his domain.

Zeus later caused the Titan to disgorge them, and together they drove the Titan gods from heaven and locked them away in the pit of Tartaros. He also presided over funeral rites and defended the right of the dead to due burial.Īs soon as he was born, Hades was devoured by Kronos, the Titan god of time and the ages, along with four of his siblings. He is a greedy god who is greatly concerned with increasing his subjects. In Greek legend, Hades was the King of the Underworld, a hidden kingdom of the dead.

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