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7 de dez. de 2022 · Hades had a few more temples outside of mainland Greece. He had another “Oracle of the Dead” at Cumae in Italy, as well as sanctuaries in Acharaca and Heriopolis in Asia Minor. Pop Culture. Though Hades has often appeared in popular culture, he is frequently depicted as conniving and evil, a portrayal at odds with his ancient persona.
9 de mar. de 2023 · Persephone, often known simply as Kore (“Maiden”), was a daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Her mythology tells of how she was abducted by her uncle Hades one day while picking flowers. Demeter, distraught, wandered the entire world in search of her daughter. When Demeter at last located Persephone in the Underworld, she demanded that her ...
9 de dez. de 2022 · The name “Pluto,” rendered as Plūtō in the Latin, was derived from the Greek name Plouton, meaning “the wealthy one.”. This name was an aspect of the deity Hades, one that highlighted his control over subterranean sources of mineral wealth. The name was also rooted in the ancient Greek noun ploutos, meaning “wealth” or “riches.”.
8 de mar. de 2023 · A servant of Hades (the Greek god of the dead), Cerberus prevented the inhabitants of the Underworld from returning to the land of the living. He was well suited to this task: in most traditions, Cerberus was a gigantic hound with three heads and a mane of snakes. In some versions he was even more terrifying, with fifty or even one hundred heads.
16 de mai. de 2023 · Theseus was the product of an affair between Aegeus, the king of Athens, and Aethra, a princess of Troezen. But in some traditions, the sea god Poseidon slept with Aethra the same night as Aegeus, making Theseus his son instead. Theseus was raised by his mother Aethra in Troezen. The identity of his father was kept secret until Theseus had ...
9 de mar. de 2023 · The Erinyes, also known as the “Furies” or “Eumenides,” were the goddesses responsible for punishing wrongdoing and blood-guilt. They appeared above all when someone carried out a crime against a family member, but they were also invoked in cases of nonfamilial homicide, impiety, and perjury. Born from the blood of Uranus (the ...
8 de dez. de 2022 · Sisyphus was a Greek king usually associated with Corinth. He was famously cunning, but unfortunately also deceitful and impious. In the most common version of the myth, Sisyphus managed to cheat Death and thereby extend his life (the details of how he accomplished this vary across different sources). Eventually, however, Sisyphus did die.
30 de jun. de 2023 · Orpheus’ journey and his music so moved Hades and Persephone, the king and queen of the Underworld, that they permitted Orpheus to take Eurydice back with him to the land of the living—but only if Orpheus did not turn around while leading her up. As Orpheus was leaving the Underworld, he began to worry that Hades had deceived him.
TO DEMETER. (1–3) I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter, awful goddess—of her and her trim-ankled daughter whom Aidoneus rapt away, given to him by all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer. (4–18) Apart from Demeter, lady of the golden sword and glorious fruits, she was playing with the deep-bosomed daughters of Oceanus and gathering flowers ...
24 de abr. de 2023 · Demeter was one of the Twelve Olympians and the goddess of fertility and agriculture. She was also a goddess of women, family, law, and the Mysteries (secret religious rites). One of the children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, Demeter was the sister of Zeus, Hestia, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. Her most famous daughter was Persephone —the bride ...
