Can anyone tell me about: Acient Greek beliefe in life in the other world?

Question

I have a school project that I can't handle finding a good passage about this!
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Answer 1

Where do you think the word Hades comes from?

Answer 2

The Greek concept, known as Hades, was not like the Christian concept of eternal punishment. Instead, Hades was a place where ALL the dead went.
There's an interesting passage in the Odyssey where Odysseus ventures into Hades and encounters his dead mother. He does not know that she is dead of heartbreak that he has not yet returned home. It is poignant. It also shows that the Greek imagination was quite sophisticated and enjoyed engaging ideas about death and fate in poetic terms. Apparently most of the ancients did not seriously believe in Hades or the gods, but they did understand themselves in a poetic sense because of these myths.

That is a major difference between contemporary people who are actually believers in the literal truth of their myths (like many fundamentalist Christians). The Greeks could use their myths to understand the human condition; fundamentalists cannot.