Land of the Dead

The land of the dead was ruled by the God Hades, the lord and master of dead. It was where all of the people that had passed away went to spend eternity. There were different parts of the land of the dead, heaven, only for heros, hell, and the place that other people who had not done anything special in there lives. When Odysseus went to the land of the dead to see Terisias he must have been scared out of his wits. The underworld represents everything that humans fear, death and not knowing what will happen in the next life. Odysseus also experiences conflict within himself when Achilles the war hero tells him that life as a slave would be better than having died as a hero.