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Hades

Places · Myth & story

The Greek named below of the dead, and also the god who keeps it. It is not the Egyptian Duat and not Xibalba’s court of trials.

Also known as Aidoneus

Hellenic religion

  • Hades belongs to Hellenic religion.

    Hades is a Greek named below. Pausanias visits cults of the dead and of chthonic gods as a traveler in that landscape.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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  • Hades is connected to Underworld.

    Hades is one underworld. The category-word should not be used as its alias.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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  • Hades is associated with Death.

    The Greek below is a geography of the dead. Descent stories go there for a local reason.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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  • Hades is associated with Descent.

    Greek katabasis is often a trip to Hades. The Hymn to Demeter reaches toward that below because a daughter has been taken.

    from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Demeter, c. 7th–6th century BCE

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  • Hades is associated with Demeter.

    The hymn’s crisis is a daughter in the below. Hades the place and the taker share a name in Greek; keep the geography distinct from Duat.

    from Anonymous (Homeric hymn) · Homeric Hymn to Demeter, c. 7th–6th century BCE

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  • Hades is associated with Key.

    Later Mediterranean images give keys to keepers of the dead. The lock-tool is borrowed by a Greek geography of below.

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  • Underworld is connected to Hades.

    Walking the underworld page should reach Hades as a named Greek instance, not an alias.

    from Pausanias · Description of Greece, c. 150–180 CE

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Roman religion

  • Roman religion appears in Hades.

    Aeneid 6 sends Aeneas into a below that is a Latin poetic Hades. The visit is Roman literature about a Greek geography, not the Duat.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

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