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Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background. Key: Dotted lines show a marriage or affair. Key: Solid lines show children.
The youngest child of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Brother and husband of Hera and brother of Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, and Hestia. He had many affairs with goddesses and mortals, such as his sister Demeter and Leto, mortals Leda and Alcmene, and more. [27] His symbols include the thunderbolt, eagle, oak tree, bull, scepter, and scales. Hera: Juno
Following their victory, according to a single famous passage in the Iliad (Book XV, ln.187–93), Hades and his two brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, drew lots [22] for realms to rule. Zeus received the sky, Poseidon received the seas, and Hades received the underworld, [ 23 ] the unseen realm to which the souls of the dead go upon leaving the ...
Persephone and Hades ; Perseus and Andromeda ; Philemon and Baucis ; Phyllis and Demophon ; Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl , two volcanoes; Poseidon and Amphitrite ; Proserpina and Pluto ; Pyramus and Thisbe ; Pyrrhus and Andromache ; Rama and Sita ; Sahadeva and Draupadi
Name Image Description Hades Ἅιδης: Ruler of the underworld and the dead. [173] He is the child of Cronus and Rhea, and the consort of Persephone. [174] In the Iliad, Hades and his brothers, Poseidon and Zeus, split the world between themselves, with Hades receiving the underworld. [175]
However it is possible that Poseidon like Zeus was a common god of all Greeks from the beginning. [13] It is possible that the Greeks did not bring with them other gods except Zeus, Eos, and the Dioskouroi. [47] The Pelasgian god probably represented the fertilising power of water, and then he was he was considered god of the sea.
Hades (Aides, Aidoneus, or Haidês), the eldest son of the Titans Cronus and Rhea; brother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia, is the Greek god of the underworld. [57] When the three brothers divided the world between themselves, Zeus received the heavens, Poseidon the sea, and Hades the underworld; the earth itself was divided ...
So Zeus slew their warder Campe (a detail not found in Hesiod) and released them, and in addition to giving Zeus his thunderbolt (as in Hesiod), the Cyclopes also gave Poseidon his trident, and Hades his helmet, and "with these weapons the gods overcame the Titans, shut them up in Tartarus, and appointed the Hundred-handers their guards".