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Hades (/ ˈ h eɪ d iː z /; Ancient Greek: ᾍδης, romanized: Hā́idēs, Attic Greek: [háːi̯dεːs], later [háːdεːs]), in the ancient Greek religion and mythology, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. [2] Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although this also made him ...
Apollo, as the god of music, gave Orpheus a golden lyre and taught him to play it. [53] Orpheus's mother taught him to make verses for singing. He is also said to have studied in Egypt. [54] Orpheus is said to have established the worship of Hecate in Aegina. [55]
When Orpheus descends and confronts Hades and Persephone, he sings a song so that they will grant his wish to bring Eurydice back from the dead. After this song is sung, Ovid shows how moving it was by noting that Sisyphus, emotionally affected for just a moment, stops his eternal task and sits on his rock, the Latin wording being inque tuo ...
It is also the name of a river in Thesprotia and Cumae which merges with the Acheron (see above). The Lethe is the river of forgetfulness, taking its name from Lethe, the goddess of forgetfulness and oblivion. In later accounts, a poplar branch dripping with water of the Lethe became the symbol of Hypnos, the god of sleep. [41]
In the Theogony, it is the subterraneous place to which Zeus casts the Titan Menoetius (here meaning either Tartarus or Hades), [27] and from which he later brings up the Hecatoncheires. [28] In the Homeric Hymn to Demeter , Erebus is used to refer to Hades, the location in which the god Hades and his wife Persephone reside, [ 29 ] while in ...
In Greek mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses.These deities represented the fundamental forces and physical foundations of the world and were generally not actively worshipped, as they, for the most part, were not given human characteristics; they were instead personifications of places or abstract concepts.
The god Dionysus, to rescue Semele from Hades, [38] and again in his role as patron of the theater. Zagreus, who was sometimes interpreted as Dionysus and/or the Egyptian god Osiris; Heracles during his 12th labor, on which occasion he also rescued Theseus; Heracles, to rescue Alcestis from Hades; Orpheus, to rescue Eurydice from Hades; Psyche
Orphism is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices [1] originating in the ancient Greek and Hellenistic world, [2] associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into the Greek underworld and returned.