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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 15 February 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...
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.
Pages in category "Children of Hades" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E. Erinyes; M.
Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa (her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter). In protest of his act, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine ...
The Naiad nymph Minthe, daughter of the infernal river-god Cocytus, became concubine to Hades, the lord of the Underworld and god of the dead. [9] [10] In jealousy, his wife Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Minthe, in the words of Strabo's account, "into the garden mint, which some call hedyosmos (lit. 'sweet-smelling')".
The idea of progress did not exist in the Greek underworld – at the moment of death, the psyche was frozen, in experience and appearance. The souls in the underworld did not age or really change in any sense. They did not lead any sort of active life in the underworld – they were exactly the same as they were in life. [90]
References have also been uncovered to "women of Oinoa", the "place of wine", who may correspond to the Dionysian women of later periods. [33] Golden naiskos with Dionysus, 2nd cent. BC. Other Mycenaean records from Pylos record the worship of a god named Eleuther, who was the son of Zeus, and to whom oxen were sacrificed.
Along with the wine god, Chiron reluctantly authorizes the two demigods to go on a quest to Tartarus to rescue Bob and greets them upon Nico and Will's successful return with the Titan. In Wrath of the Triple Goddess , Chiron surprises Percy by becoming his substitute history teacher at Alternative High School, although Chiron explains that it ...