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It was a chair that Hades, one of the brothers of Zeus, had people who came to the underworld sit down on the chair so they would forget everything.
Hercules once saved 1 person get off of that chair, and not the other because Theseus wanted to marry Persephone, which became the wife of Hades, God of the underworld.
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Who owned the chair of forgetfulness?
Hades owned the Chair of Forgetfulness. It would come in twain with your naked flesh and you would forget everything.
Who sat in the chair of forgetfulness down in Hades?
Pirithous and Theseus
What is the mythical elixir of forgetfulness?
nepenthe
You were the river of forgetfulness in the underworld?
River Lethe.
What are Lethe and Nepenthe?
Nepenthe is in Greek Mythology (Odyssey) a medicine for sorrow, literally, an anti-depressant - a "drug of forgetfulness". Lethe is the Underworld river of oblivion/forgetfulness.
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