Hades Exposition

Fernando Altamirano
World History
 Hades
Hades, ,(“the Wealthy One” or
“the Giver of Wealth”), in
ancient Greek religion was the
god of the underworld. Hades
was a son of the Titans Cronus
and Rhea, and brother of the
deities Zeus, Poseidon,
Demeter, Hera, and Hestia.
According to the myth, he and his brothers
Zeus and Poseidon defeated the Titans and
claimed the government of the cosmos,
winning the underworld, the sky and the sea,
respectively; the solid land, from long before
the province of Gaia, was available to all three
at the same time.
 The
Underworld
The underworld in Greek mythology was not a lively place,
for it was where all the dead souls went. When a person died,
the soul would be sent to Hades, a more formal name for the
underworld. The dead would go to Hades because there was
no annihilation in the Greek mythology.
In ancient Greek myths, the kingdom
of Hades is the misty and gloomy
abode of the dead to which all
mortals went. Later Greek
philosophy introduced the idea that
mortals were judged after death and
rewarded or cursed. Very few mortals
could leave this realm once they had
entered it, with the exception of the
heroes Heracles and Theseus.
 The deceased entered the
underworld by crossing the
Acheronte River, carried by
Charon, who charged an obolus
for the passage, a small coin that
his pious relatives placed in the
mouth of the deceased. The poor
and those who had neither
friends nor family gathered for a
hundred years on the nearby
shore.
The other side of the river was
guarded by Cerberus, the
three-headed dog. The
monstrous dog was the son of
Echidna and Typhon, and
guarded the gate to the
kingdom of Hades (the Greek
underworld) and ensured that
the dead did not come out and
that the living did not they
could come in.
As an adult, Zeus managed to force his father to
regurgitate his brothers. Released, the young
gods, along with whatever allies they managed to
gather, challenged the might of the older gods in
the Titanomachy, a divine war. Zeus, Poseidon,
and Hades were given weapons by the three
Cyclopes as aid for war: Zeus the thunderbolts,
Poseidon the trident, and Hades an invisibility
helmet.
Although he was an
Olympian, he spent most
of his time in his dark
kingdom. Formidable in
battle, he demonstrated his
ferocity in the famous
Titanomachy, the battle of
the Olympians against the
Titans, which enthroned
Zeus. Feared and hated,
Hades personified the
inexorable finality of
death.
 Persephone
Hades opened a hole in the ground to take Persephone
away without Demeter noticing. According to the
Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Zeus was an accomplice in
the kidnapping. Later, Hades convinced his niece that he
would be a great husband and that she would be queen of
the underworld, the young Persephone was happy to hear
this and agreed to eat the grains of pomegranate that her
new husband offered her.
 Theseus y Pirithous

Hades imprisoned Theseus and Pirithous, who had promised to kidnap and
marry the daughters of Zeus. Theseus chose Helen, kidnapped her from her and
decided to keep her until she was of marriageable age. Pirithous chose
Persephone. and traveled to the Underworld. Hades knew about his plan to
kidnap his wife, so he pretended to offer them hospitality and prepared a
banquet. As soon as the couple sat down, snakes coiled around their feet,
trapping them
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