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  2. Macaria (daughter of Hades) - Wikipedia

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    This Macaria is attested in a single source, the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, according to which she is a daughter of Hades, the king of the Underworld; [3] no mother is mentioned. Nothing else is known about her, as she is neither explicitly stated to be an immortal goddess nor a mortal woman, nor confirmed to live in the ...

  3. Category:Children of Hades - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Children of Hades" ... Erinyes; M. Macaria (daughter of Hades) Z. Zagreus This page was last edited on 17 August 2024, at 20:59 ...

  4. Hades - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. Dis Pater - Wikipedia

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    In literature, Dis Pater's name was commonly used as a symbolic and poetic way of referring to death itself. Dis Pater was sometimes identified with the Sabine god Soranus . [ 4 ] Julius Caesar , in his Commentaries on the Gallic Wars ( VI :18), states that the Gauls all claimed descent from Dis Pater .

  6. Melinoë - Wikipedia

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    Melinoë is the protagonist of the video game Hades II, developed and published by Supergiant Games. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] In the game, Melinoë is the Princess of the Underworld and sister of Zagreus , the protagonist of the first game .

  7. Katabasis - Wikipedia

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    The next major katabasis in the Metamorphoses occurs in book 5 by Proserpina, the daughter of Ceres, who is kidnapped by Dis. As Proserpina is picking flowers, Pluto falls in love with her and decides to grab her and take her to the underworld in his chariot. Worried about her now-missing daughter, Ceres becomes distraught and searches for ...

  8. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    Rivers are a fundamental part of the topography of the underworld and are found in the earliest source materials: [12] In Homer's Iliad, the "ghost" of Patroclus makes specific mention of gates and a river (unnamed) in Hades; [13] in Homer's Odyssey, the "ghost" of Odysseus's mother, Anticlea, describes there being many "great rivers and appalling streams", and reference is made to at least ...

  9. Persephone in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter in Greek mythology, appears in films, works of literature, and in popular culture, both as a goddess character and through the symbolic use of her name. She becomes the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld. [1]