Greek mythology had three minor deities demi-gods serving as the judges of the dead in the underworld — Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Aeacus. Minos was the judge who made the final vote. Rhadamanthus was the judge of the men of Asia and the lord of the Elysium. Aeacus was the guardian of the keys of the underworld and the judge of the men of Europe. Hades was the god of the underworld and the name eventually came to also describe the home of the dead as well. He was the oldest male child of Cronus and Rhea. Hades and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated their father and the Titans to end their reign, claiming rulership over the cosmos. No man takes with him to Hades all his exceeding wealth. Theognis of megara — Line 725, comparable to: 'For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away, his glory shall not descend after him', Psalm xlix, 17. Tags: man, him, exceeding, wealth. Magical rigging lashed itself tight, and the ship tacked to port. The Argo II picked up speed, retreating north-west, as they’d been doing for the past two days.

Hades, King of the Dead
The mythical story of Hades, King of the Dead
by Caroline H. Harding and Samuel B. Harding

The Myth of Hades, King of the Dead
Hades, the god of the under-world, was also a brother of Zeus; but the Greeks did not think of him as being bright and beautiful like the other gods. They believed, indeed, that he helped make the seeds sprout and push their leaves above the surface of the earth, and that he gave men the gold and silver which they dug out of their mines. But more often they thought of him as the god of the gloomy world of the dead; so they imagined that he was dark and stern in appearance, and they feared him more than they did the other gods.
The Greeks thought that when any one died, his soul or shade went at once to the kingdom of Hades. The way to this under-world lay through a cave which was in the midst of a dark and gloomy forest, by the side of a still lake. When they had passed down through this cavern, the shades came to a broad, swift stream of black water. There they found a bent old man named Charon, whose duty it was to take the shades across the stream in a small, leaky boat. But only those spirits could cross whose bodies had been properly burned or buried in the world above; and those whose funerals had not been properly attended to were compelled to wander for a hundred years upon the river-bank before Charon would take them across.
When the shades had crossed the river, they came upon a terrible creature, which guarded the path so that no one who had once passed into the kingdom of the dead could ever come out again. This was the great dog Cerberus, who had three heads, and who barked so fiercely that he could be heard through all the lower world.

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Beyond him the shades entered the judgment room, where they were judged for what they had done on earth. If they had lived good lives, they were allowed to enter the fields of the blessed, where flowers of gold bloomed in beautiful meadows; and there they walked and talked with other shades, who had led good lives in the world above. But the Greeks thought that even these spirits were always longing to see the light of day again, for they believed that no life was so happy as that which they lived on the face of the earth.