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Parents: Oceanus (and Tethys) or Erebus and Nyx Her name is taken only for the most solemn oaths. Styx is also the river that flows around the Underworld. Parents: Aeacus: Zeus and Aegina Rhadamanthus and Minos: Zeus and Europa They were rewarded for their endeavors with the position of judge in the Underworld. Both Rhadamanthus and Aeacus were renowned for their justice.

Judges: Rhadamanthus, Minos, and Aeacus.

Parents: Zeus (and Maia) or Dionysus and Aphrodite He is shown in art conveying the dead to Charon. A conductor of dreams and a chthonian god, Hermes Psychopompous herds the dead towards the Underworld. A son of Night, Thanatos is the brother of Sleep ( Somnus or Hypnos) who along with the gods of dreams seem to inhabit the Underworld. The son of Erebus (also a region of the Underworld in which both the Elysian Fields and the Plain of Asphodel are found) and the Styx, Charon is the ferryman of the dead who takes an obol from the mouth of each dead person for each soul he ferries over to the Underworld.

Parents: Gaia and the blood from the castrated Uranus or Nyx (Night) or Darkness or Hades (and Persephone) or Poine (see Theoi Erinyes) These are Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera. (Furies) The Erinyes are goddesses of vengeance who pursue their victims even after death. Parents: Perses (and Asteria) or Zeus and Asteria (a second-generation Titan) or Nyx (Night) or Aristaios or Demeter (see Theoi Hecate) A mysterious nature goddess associated with sorcery and witchcraft, who went with Demeter to the Underworld to fetch Persephone, but then stayed to assist Persephone. Parents: Zeus and Demeter or Zeus and Styx (Kore) Wife of Hades and queen of the Underworld. Although there is another god who is the official god of death, sometimes Hades is considered to be Death.

Combined with Plutus ( Pluto) lord of wealth.