And what was their final destination? It seems that this rather depended on the kind of life they had led. At first Hades himself was the arbiter, but in later years he delegated the Great Weighing Up to two sons of Zeus and EUROPA—MINOS and RHADAMANTHUS who, after their own deaths, were appointed, along with their half brother AEACUS, Judges of the Underworld. They decided whether an individual had lived a heroic, average, or punishably wicked life.87
