...many other means there be, that promise the
foreknowledge of things to come: besides the raising up and
conjuring of ghosts departed, the conference also with
familiars and spirits infernal. And all these were found out
in our days, to be no better than vanities and false
illusions. . .
-- Pliny The Elder
HADES, n. The lower world; the residence of departed spiri he
place where the dead live.
Among the ancients the idea of Hades was not synonymous with our
Hell, many of the most respectable men of antiquity residing there in
a very comfortable kind of way....