Related topics from BritannicaHades
("the Rich"), in Greek religion, son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, and brother of the deities Zeus and Poseidon. After Cronus was killed, the kingdom of the underworld fell by lot to Hades. There ...
Hades
in the Greek Old Testament, translation of the Hebrew Sheol, the dwelling place of the dead. See hell.Eurydice
in ancient Greek legend, the wife of Orpheus. Her husband's attempt to retrieve Eurydice from Hades forms the basis of one of the most popular Greek legends. See Orpheus.Persephone
in Greek religion, daughter of Zeus, the chief god, and Demeter, the goddess of agriculture; she was the wife of Hades, king of the underworld. In the Homeric "Hymn to Demeter," the story is told of ...
Acheron
river in Thesprotia in Epirus, Greece, that was thought in ancient times to go to Hades because it flowed through dark gorges and went underground in several places; an oracle of the dead was ...
Pirithous
in Greek mythology, the son of Ixion and the companion and helper of the hero Theseus in his many adventures, including the descent into Hades to carry off Persephone, the daughter of the goddess ...
Greek mythology
Certain myths, in which goddesses or heroes were temporarily incarcerated in the underworld, were allegories of seasonal renewal. Perhaps the best-known myth of this type is the one that tells how ...
hell
In Archaic Greece (c. 650-480 BCE), Hades is an underworld god, a chthonic personification of death whose realm, divided from the land of the living by a terrible river, resembles the Mesopotamian ...
Plutus
in Greek religion, god of abundance or wealth, a personification of ploutos (Greek: "riches"). According to Hesiod, Plutus was born in Crete, the son of the goddess of fruitfulness, Demeter, and the ...
Aristophanes
This is a literary comedy. In Frogs (405 BC; Greek Batrachoi) Dionysus, the god of drama, is concerned about the poor quality of present-day tragedy in Athens now that his recent favourite, ...
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