How far was the kingdom of the dead from the earth?
According to a poet of the ancient world if a copper anvil fell from the sky, it would take nine days and nine nights to reach the earth and there would be the same distance from the earth to the Underworld. The kingdom of the dead was found Underground and the dead finished there together with rebel gods. This reign comunicated with the surface of the earth via natural caverns and was bounded by some rivers of which the most important was the Acheron (the river of pain), the Styx (the river of terror), and the Lethe (the river of oblivion). Drinking from the latter, souls forgot earthy life.
