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7 Cards in this Set
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Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus
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Three judges who pass sentence and send wicked to everlasting torment. Good to place of blessedness called the Eyasian Fields.
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Charon
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Boatman that ferries the souls of the dead across the water to the farther bank, to the gates of Tartarus.
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Cerberus
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Three headed watch dog of the underworld who permits spirits to enter but not return.
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Tantalus
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Had his only son killed and tried to serve it to the gods. He was punished with disappearing water and fruit on trees.
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Sisyphus
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Instead of helping his daughter, he went to see an eagle. Punishment: forever roll a rock up a hill which rolled back down on him.
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Furies
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"the Erinyes" placed by Virgil in the underworld. They punish evildoers. Pursuing sinners on the earth.
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Elysian fields
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A place of blessed where the good are sent.
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