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Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the wife of Hades, and the queen of the Underworld. Her most important myth tells of how Hades abducted her, then tricked her into eating something in the Underworld so that she could never leave. Not even her mother, Demeter, could bring her home.
The only child of Cronus and Rhea who did not inhabit Mount Olympus, Hades lived alone in a dark palace within the Underworld, a subterranean region of mist and gloom. Hades was an unusually solitary figure and seldom took part in the feuds that constantly occupied other Olympian deities. Despite his distance from mythological drama (or perhaps ...
Demeter was one of the six children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea. Cronus, who had overthrown his own father to assume control of the cosmos, feared that his children would do the same to him. Thus, he swallowed each of his offspring as soon as they were born: Hades, Hestia, Hera, Poseidon, and Demeter.
When Persephone was abducted by her uncle Hades and spirited away to his gloomy Underworld kingdom, Hecate was the only one who heard her cries. When Persephone’s mother, Demeter, was wandering the earth in search of her daughter, Hecate revealed what she had heard. Unfortunately, she did not know where Persephone had been taken.
Tartarus, a dark primordial landscape below the earth and even Hades, was the home of a handful of sinners and hated enemies of the gods. Zeus, for example, cast his defeated foes into Tartarus—first Cronus and the Titans , [16] and later the monster Typhoeus (Tartarus’ own son, perversely enough).
Apollodorus, Library 3.15.6, translated by James G. Frazer.See also Plutarch, Life of Theseus 3.3. ↩; The fifth-century BCE poet Bacchylides tells a story of how Theseus proved that he was the son of Poseidon by diving into the sea and retrieving a ring that had been tossed into it by King Minos (Bacchylides, Ode 17).
Convinced that his children would one day rebel against him, Uranus imprisoned them in Tartarus, a hellish realm deep within the earth. Distraught by Uranus's tyranny, Gaia urged her children to rebel against their wicked father. When she offered them a flint sickle in the hopes they might take up arms, only Cronus answered her call.
In time, this aspect became independent of Jupiter and eventually merged with the Hellenic god Hades. Attributes. Pluto was the lord of the subterranean underworld, which in Roman mythology served as the resting place of departed souls. He lived underground in a gloomy palace, and seemed to have little interest in the world of men.
Perseus and Andromeda soon traveled to Greece, where they had many children. They are remembered as the ancestors of a number of great heroes, including Heracles. Detail from Perseus and Andromeda by Pierre Mignard I (1679). Cepheus is depicted kissing the hand of Perseus after he rescues his daughter Andromeda. Louvre Museum, Paris Public Domain
But his exact purpose and function is unclear, as it was more often the god Hermes who was considered responsible for bringing souls to the Underworld, while Hades was the ruler of the dead. Thanatos seems to have been above all a symbolic entity, representing the inexorable approach of death. Iconography