The Underworld

The land of the dead — its rivers, its judges, and its eternal punishments.

• crossing the Styx IDIOM Passing a point of no return, especially into death or an irreversible change. the river of no return
• to descend into Hades IDIOM To enter a dark, frightening, or hopeless situation, often to face something you dread. down among the dead
• drinking from Lethe IDIOM To forget completely, as if wiping away all memory of something. the water of forgetting
• tantalize WORD To tease someone by offering or showing something they want, then keeping it just out of reach. punished just out of reach
• a Sisyphean task IDIOM A task that is endless and futile, because it must be repeated forever without ever being finished. the endless labour
• the Fates have spoken IDIOM A decision has been made that cannot be changed, as if it were destiny. the thread that cannot be undone