These cookies expire after a short time, or when you close your web browser after using our website. HERITAGEDAILY uses both session cookies and persistent cookies.Ī session cookie is used to identify a particular visit to our Website. – To enable ad delivery and behavioural advertising Cookies can be used to collect, store and share bits of information about your activities across websites, including on the HERITAGEDAILY website and subsidiary brand website.Ĭookies can be used for the following purposes: (the “Website”), is operated by HERITAGEDAILYĬookies are small text files that are stored in the web browser that allows HERITAGEDAILY or a third party to recognise you. In his eagerness to see his lost love, he turned to her after reaching the surface, but they were not fully across the underworld’s borders, causing Eurydice to vanish forever. The cave was also where Orpheus led his wife Eurydice back from the underworld, after Hades and Persephone agreed to allow her return on the condition that he would not gaze on her until they reached the upper world. In Greek legends, the cave was the portal in which Heracles (Hercules), the divine hero in mythology and the son of Zeus, dragged Cerberus (a beast with three canine heads and a tail with a dragon or serpent) during the 12 labours set by Eurystheus of Mycenae, after being instructed by the Oracle of Delphi to atone for killing his wife and children through madness induced by Hera. Temple of Poseidon (later converted into a Byzantine Church) Image Credit : Jean Housen – CC BY-SA 4.0 The cave was believed to be the gateway to Hades, the realm of the dead named for the patron god of the underworld, in which the departed souls were transported across the rivers Styx and/or Acheron by Charon the ferryman, to be judged on whether they would reside in Elysium or Tartarus.
The inhabitants built several temples at the site, with the most notable being in dedication to Poseidon and Apollo, for which Strabo in the first century AD and Pausanias in the second century AD, describe a cult temple that worshipped Poseidon and fronted a cave-like temple on the headland.
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