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Ammoudia Village

Names passed Ammoudia- Famous 'Guests' of Ammoudia

 

The kingdom of Pluto and Persephone visited big names of the ancient Greek world. The detailed description of Homer K 'Rhapsody, reveals that he had visited the area and through the imagination, Ulysses arrived in the community of souls to communicate with the soul of the seer Teiresias in order to be informed of his return to Ithaca. 

 

Herodotus describes the visit of the envoys of Periander in Necromancy to ask the soul of his wife Melissa for the hidden treasure. Also Orpheus descended into Hades to ask back armed with his music, his beloved Eurydice. Also Theseus and his friend went Peirithos order to seize Persephone wanted to marry daughters of gods. 

 

Hercules embodied the 12th feat, involving Cerberus at the gates of Hades. A number of other gods demigods and heroes arrived at intervals Necromancy.

About Ammoudia
Ammoudia (Greek: Αμμουδιά, before 1928: Σπλάντζα - Splantza[2]) is a small village in the municipal unit of Fanari in the Preveza regional unit in Epirus, Greece. Ammoudia is located on the Ionian Sea coast, 9 kilometres (6 mi) southeast of Parga. The mouth of the river Acheron is in the village.
Ammoudia in Map

Ammoudia is situated in Preveza, Ipiros, Greece, its geographical coordinates are 39° 14' 20" North, 20° 28' 58" East and its original name (with diacritics) is Ammoudiá.

The postal code of Ammoudia is 48062 and its telephone access code is +3026840.

Ammoudia is at an altitude of 5 meters.

In 1991, Ammoudia's population was 267, up from 242 in 1981.

Locations near Ammoudia include the Ancient city of Kichyros 

Necromanteion

The Necromanteion or Nekromanteion(Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hadesand Persephone. According to tradition, it was located on the banks of the Acheron river in Epirus, near the ancient city of Ephyra. This site was believed by devotees to be the door to Hades, the realm of the dead.

The site is at the meeting point of the Acheron,Pyriphlegethon and Cocytus rivers, believed to flow through and water the kingdom of Hades. The meaning of the names of the rivers has been interpreted to be "joyless", "burning coals" and "lament."[1]

The guard of Hades was Kerberou.Cerberus is the offspring of Echidna, a hybrid half-woman and half-serpent, and Typhon, a gigantic monster even the Greek gods feared. Its siblings are the Lernaean Hydra; Orthrus, a two-headed hellhound; and the Chimera, a three-headed monster.[5] The common depiction of Cerberus in Greek mythology and art is as having three heads. In most works, the three heads each respectively see and represent the past, the present, and the future, while other sources suggest the heads represent birth, youth, and old age.[6] Each of Cerberus' heads is said to have an appetite only for live meat and thus allow only the spirits of the dead to freely enter the underworld, but allow none to leave.[7] Cerberus was always employed as Hades' loyal watchdog, and guarded the gates that granted access and exit to the underworld.[8]

 

Following Greek mythology, Charonferries souls across the Acheron to Hell. Those who were neutral in life sit on the banks

He claimed that Acheron flowed in the opposite direction from Oceanus beneath the earth under desert places. The word is also occasionally used as a synecdoche for Hades itself. Virgil mentions Acheron with the other infernal rivers in his description of the underworld in Book VI of the Aeneid. In Book VII, line 312[9] he gives to Juno the famous saying, flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo: 'If I cannot deflect the will of Heaven, I shall move Hell.' The same words were used by Sigmund Freud as the dedicatory motto for his seminal book The Interpretation of Dreams, figuring Acheron as psychological underworld beneath the conscious mind.

The Acheron was sometimes referred to as a lake or swamp in Greek literature, as in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Euripides'Alcestis.

In Dante's Inferno, the Acheron river forms the border of Hell. Following Greek mythology, Charon ferries souls across this river to Hell. Those who were neutral in life sit on the banks.

Acheron River 

In ancient Greek mythology, Acheron was known as the river of woe, and was one of the five rivers of the Greek underworld. In the Homeric poems the Acheron was described as a river of Hades, into which Cocytus andPhlegethon both flowed.[2][3]

The Roman poet Virgil called it the principal river of Tartarus, from which the Styx and Cocytus both sprang.[4] The newly dead would be ferried across the Acheron by Charon in order to enter the Underworld.[5]

The Suda describes the river as "a place of healing, not a place of punishment, cleansing and purging the sins of humans."[6]

According to later traditions, Acheron had been a son of Helios and either Gaia or Demeter, who had been turned into the Underworld river bearing his name after he refreshed the Titans with drink during their contest with Zeus. By this myth, Acheron is also the father of Ascalaphus by either Orphne[7] or Gorgyra.[8]

The river called Acheron with the nearby ruins of the Necromanteion is found near Parga on the mainland opposite Corfu. Another branch of Acheron was believed to surface at the Acherusian cape (now Karadeniz Ereğli in Turkey) and was seen by the Argonauts according to Apollonius of Rhodes. Greeks who settled in Italy identified the Acherusian lake into which Acheron flowed with Lake Avernus. Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second greatest river in the world, excelled only by Oceanus.

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