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  2. Katabasis - Wikipedia

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    In book 4, he includes an account of Juno's descent to Hades to bring her perceived justice to Ino. [29] Ovid describes Juno's path to the underworld, noting Cerberus' presence. [30] Juno seeks the Furies (Tisiphone, Megara, and Alecto) to destroy the house of Cadmus, namely Ino and her husband Athamas. While in the underworld, Juno passes ...

  3. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Gods in The Odyssey - Wikipedia

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    Poseidon is the Greek god of the sea and the brother of Zeus, Hades, Hera, Hestia and Demeter. Beckoned by the curse of Polyphemus, his one-eyed giant son, he attempts to make Odysseus' journey home much harder than it actually needs to be. He appears to be very spiteful in the Odyssey and actively causes problems for Odysseus on sight ...

  5. Erebus - Wikipedia

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    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 Euripides' play Orestes, it is where the goddess Nyx lives. [30] Later, in Roman literature, Ovid calls Proserpina the "queen of Erebus", [31] and other authors use Erebus as a name for Hades. [32]

  6. Triptolemus - Wikipedia

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    Triptolemus' first introduction to Demeter is during Demeter's search for her daughter following the abduction of Persephone.While Demeter, in the guise of an old woman [8] named Doso, [9] was searching for her daughter Persephone (Kore), who had been abducted by Hades (Pluto), [10] she received a hospitable welcome from Celeus, the King of Eleusis.

  7. Persephone in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    In Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, Persephone is depicted in the first episode of The Fate of Atlantis DLC, titled Fields of Elysium. She is depicted as ruling over Elysium. Like her depiction in Greek mythology, she is mentioned as being married to Hades and is therefore the Queen of the Underworld as well as ruling Elysium.

  8. Elysium - Wikipedia

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    Goethe's Ankunft im Elysia by Franz Nadorp. Elysium (/ ɪ ˈ l ɪ z i. ə m, ɪ ˈ l ɪ ʒ ə m / [1]), otherwise known as the Elysian Fields (Ancient Greek: Ἠλύσιον πεδίον, Ēlýsion pedíon) or Elysian Plains, is a conception of the afterlife that developed over time and was maintained by some Greek religious and philosophical sects and cults.

  9. Minthe - Wikipedia

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    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')".