I was collecting questions from playing “Hades”, but I’ve now gone into chicken mode because the second boss has too many heads and I’m scared.
Questions
Found wandering about the underworld in the video game “Hades”, what term is used for a dead person’s spirit in Greek mythology? On his long journey home Odysseus goes to visit the one belonging to the blind seer Tiresias in order to receive advice on he may return to Ithaca.
SHADE
In contrast to Tartarus for the wicked and Elysium for the righteous, in which part of the underworld will the souls of ordinary people wallow away the hours? After a few runs on the video game “Hades” you should reach the chambers of this section.
ASPHODEL (FIELDS / MEADOWS)
Featured in the Seventh Circle of Hell in Dante’s “Inferno” where Alexander the Great is up to his eyebrows in it, which river of the underworld in Greek mythology is associated with fire?
PHLEGETHON
An early boss in the video game “Hades”, which figure in Greek myth who is a daughter of Nyx should not be confused with a similarly named wife of Heracles? Perhaps surprisingly, she also gives her name to the title character in the 1964 Hammer horror film “The Gorgon”.
MEGAERA
In John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” being described as ‘blushful’, which spring on Mount Helicon was created when Pegasus hit the ground with his hoof while being ridden by Bellerophon?
HIPPOCRENE
Though one run-of-the-mill account tells of how he died of grief following the loss of his wife Eurydice to a snakebite, another tells of how Orpheus was killed by which ‘raving ones’ after showing disrespect to Dionysus?
MAENADS
Nessus is an important figure in the legend of Hercules and a boss that needs to be taken down in the video game “Titan Quest”. He was the son of which brother of Lapithes from Greek mythology?
CENTAURUS
Heracles’ wife Deianeira smeared poisoned blood over a cloak to try and restore her husband’s faithfulness when she became jealous of which daughter of King Erytus?
IOLE
Its title referring to a place that lies west of Thermopylae, which of Sophocles’ plays is based around the myth of Heracles’ death?
TRACHINIAE / WOMEN OF TRACHIS
Depicted in the form of horses, which group of four figures from Greek mythology were responsible for pulling Zeus’ chariot? Eos’ son Notus was one of them.
ANEMOI / FOUR WINDS