Greek underworld are the unburied which can't be taken across from bank to bank until they receive a proper burial. Across the river, guarding the gates of the underworld is Cerberus. There is also an area where the Judges of the underworld decide where to send the souls of the person — to Elysium, the Fields of Asphodel, or Tartarus. While Tartarus is not considered to be directly a part of the underworld, it is described as being as far beneath the underworld as the earth is beneath the sky. It is so dark that the "night is poured around it in
The Kingdom of the Wicked The Kingdom of the Wicked The Kingdom of the Wicked is a 1985 historical novel by Anthony Burgess. Like two of his earlier works, the long narrative poem "" and the novel "Man of Nazareth" (together these books make up what has been referred to as his biblical or religious trilogy), Burgess wrote "The Kingdom of the Wicked" in part as preparation for a screenplay; in this case for the television series "A.D." The story of the birth of Christianity and its interaction with the Roman Empire is told largely chronologically by a narrator slowly succumbing to disease during the