the asphodel meadows is where the souls of people who lived lives of near equal good and evil rested. it essentially was a plain of asphodel flowers, which were the favorite food of the greek dead. it is described as a ghostly place that is an even less perfect version of life on earth.

cocytus or kokytos, meaning "the river of wailing", is a river in the underworld in greek mythology. cocytus flows into the river acheron, across which dwells the underworld, the mythological abode of the dead.

in greek mythology, elysium was a section of the underworld. the elysian Fields, or the elysian plains, were the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous.

in greek mythology, lethe was one of the five rivers of hades. also known as the ameles potamos, the lethe flowed around the cave of hypnos and through the underworld, where all those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.

in greek mythology, the river phlegethon or pyriphlegethon was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld.. plato describes it as "a stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of tartarus." it was parallel to the river styx.