Death (personification) Indo-European Mythology Ancient Greek
In Ancient Greek, the Greeks saw death as good. He is often shown as a bearded, winged man or a young, winged, boy. Death, or Thanatos, is the opposite of Life. Death is represented as a male, and life as a female. He is the twin brother of Hypnos, the god of Sleep. He is discripted as gentle, he escorts the dead to the Underworld, Hades. Then he hands the dead to Charon, who mans a boat that carries the dead to the underworld, threw the river Styx. Thanatos' sisters, Keres, where the spirits of violent death, they where connected with deaths from battle, disease, accident, and murder. They where portrayed as evil, they where feeding on the body of the dead, after the soul was escorted to the Hades.