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Hades

noun as in bottomless pit

noun as in inferno

noun as in nether world

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Or what in Hades will happen to the surviving characters?

It depicts Dionysus journeying to Hades to retrieve a poet who can help Athens in crisis, culminating in a contest between Aeschylus and Euripides.

From Salon

She brings similarly unexpected colors to Sara in “American Primeval,” whom she likens to “a Brontë character who is suddenly forced to play death-rugby in Hades.”

Trump strikes a deal with the devil and then uses the devil’s own advice to overpower him and become the King of Hades.

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Hades was escapism that told a story about escaping, an entertaining time-waster when time was all we had.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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