Popular

The Popular section collects overview pages and lists rather than single myths: the best-known pairs of lovers, recommended films, baby names taken from mythology, and the figures who judge the dead. They are meant as an entry point for readers who want a quick way into the larger stories.

Couples and names

10 Famous Greek Mythology Couples picks out the best-known pairs of the myths, and Top Greek Mythology Baby names lists names drawn from them.

The judges of the dead

The Three Judges of the Underworld are Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, sons of Zeus who were just men in life. Plato names them in the Gorgias (523e–524a), and in the Apology (41a) Socrates lists Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, with Triptolemus, among the true judges in the other world; in the Gorgias, Zeus appoints them to judge souls after death, Rhadamanthus for those from Asia, Aeacus for those from Europe and Minos to settle doubtful cases, and the verdict sends a soul to the Isles of the Blessed or to Tartarus.

Films and sins

Best Greek Mythology Movies looks at screen versions of the myths, and The Seven Deadly Sins links a later list of vices to characters from the myths.

See Also: 10 Famous Greek Mythology Couples, The Three Judges of the Underworld, Minos, Rhadamanthus, Aeacus, Tartarus