403) observes that people preferredĬalling him Pluton (the giver of wealth) to pronouncing the dreaded name of Hades Hades or Pluton (Haides, Plouton or poetically Aides, Ahidoneus and Ploutens), Perseus: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) Cited Nov 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks This text is from: Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. When mortals invoked him, they struck the earthīy the Romans Hades was identified partly with Orcus, partly The plants sacred to him were the cypress and the narcissus black sheep Sometimes he appears as a god of agriculture, with a cornucopia, or a two-pronged In works of art he is represented as resembling hisīrothers Zeus and Poseidon, but with gloomy features and hair falling over hisīrow, the key of the infernal world in his hand, and the dog Cerberus at his side. The most celebrated of the myths referring to Hades is that He is also styled PolydectesĪnd Polydegmon, as receiving at last all men in his realms. Upon Zeus of the lower world, as well as upon Demeter. As old as Hesiod is the advice to the plougher to call This because it is from the depths of the earth that corn and its attendantīlessings are produced. Represented in a milder light, being called Pluto (Plouton, Ploutos), or the giver Only worshipped on exceptional occasions. Sacrifice and prayer are of no avail with him, and he is therefore Hades is the enemy of all life, heartless and inexorable, and hated, accordingly,īy gods and men. Staff but in the later belief the office of conductor of souls belonged to Hermes. Originally he was, to all appearance, conceived as bringing down theĭead himself to the lower world in his chariot, or as driving them down with his This was given to him by the Cyclopes to aid him in the battle of the gods with The symbol of his invisible empire was the helmet that made men invisible. Held sway over the other powers of the infernal regions, and over the ghosts of The son of Cronus and Rhea, who received the dominion of the lower world at theĭivision of the universe after the fall of Cronus, his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon,īeing made lords respectively of the sky and sea.
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