HADES AND THE RIVER STYX. Lejon Holmes and Avontae dent. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

HADES AND THE RIVER STYX. Lejon Holmes and Avontae dent. ----------------------------------------------

Payment or no payment. • If your family had not buried you with a coin, to use as payment, you were stuck on the land of living. •

The river Styx separated. • The river Styx was a special river to the Ancient Greece. • The river Styx separated the world of the living from the world of the dead.

Picking up souls. • When your soul got to the river, a boatman named Charon would give you a ride. But the ride wasn't free.

Punishment for the body. • Some souls were sent to the underworld as punishment,because it seemed to take a while to find just the right body.