Hekatonkheires. The Hecatonchire Briareos used as an allegory of the multiple threat of labour unrest to Capital in a political cartoon, 1890 Other accounts make Briareus or Aegaeon one of the assailants of Olympus, who, after his defeat, was buried under Mount Aetna (Callimachus, Hymn to Delos, 141). Mythology[edit] Hesiod[edit] Soon after they were born their father Uranus threw them into the depths of Tartarus because he saw them as hideous monsters. In some versions Uranus saw how ugly the Hekatonkheires were at their birth and pushed them back into Gaia's womb, upsetting Gaia greatly, causing her great pain and setting into motion the overthrow of Uranus by Cronus, who later imprisoned them in Tartarus. Pausanias[edit] Others[edit] In popular culture[edit] The giant is also mentioned in Cervantes' Don Quixote, in the famous episode of the windmills.
Briareos is mentioned in Book I of John Milton's Paradise Lost alongside Typhon as an analogue to the fallen Satan. See also[edit] Notes[edit] References[edit] Greek underworld. The Greek underworld, in mythology, was a place where souls went after death and was the Greek idea of afterlife. At the moment of death the soul was separated from the corpse, taking on the shape of the former person, and was transported to the entrance of Hades.[1] Hades itself was described as being either at the outer bounds of the ocean or beneath the depths or ends of the earth.[2] It was considered the dark counterpart to the brightness of Mount Olympus, and was the kingdom of the dead that corresponded to the kingdom of the gods.[3] Hades was a realm invisible to the living and it was made solely for the dead.[4] Geography[edit] Rivers[edit] There were five main rivers that appear both in the real world and the underworld.
Their names were meant to reflect the emotions associated with death.[5] Tartarus[edit] Fields of Punishment[edit] The Fields of Punishment was a place for those who had created havoc on the world and committed crimes specifically against the gods. Elysium[edit] The Ancient Greek Underworld and Hades. What happens after you die? If you were an ancient Greek, but not too deep-thinking a philosopher, the chances are you would have thought you went to Hades or the Greek Underworld. The Afterlife or Hereafter in the mythology of ancient Greece and Rome takes place in an area often referred to as the Underworld or Hades (although sometimes the location is described as a distant portion of the earth): the Underworld, because it is in the sunless regions under the earth, or Hades' realm (or Hades) because the Underworld was Hades' third of the cosmos, just as the sea was the god Poseidon's (Neptune, to the Romans) and the sky, the god Zeus' (Jupiter, to the Romans).
Hades is sometimes referred to euphemistically as Pluto, which refers to his wealth, but the Lord of the Underworld had little in the way of a following. Underworld Myths Nekuia Several myths involve a voyage to the Underworld (nekuia*) to obtain information. "Life" in the Underworld - A Shadowy Existence Not Really Heaven or Hell. Gods and Goddesses of the Greek Underworld - Main Gods and Goddesses of the Underworld in Ancient Greece. The Ancient Greek Underworld and Hades.