Hades (Pluto, Dis) Olympian god of the
underworld. Son of the Titans Cronus and
Rhea. The brother of Demeter, Hera, Hestia,
Poseidon, and Zeus. Classical assets are the
Homeric Hymn to Demeter (1–87, 334–433),
Apollodorus’s Library (1.1.5–1.2.1), Hesiod’s
Theogony (453–506, 765–778, 850), Homer’s
Iliad (five.394–402, 15.187–193, 20.61–sixty six),
Hyginus’s Fabulae (146), Lucian’s Dialogue of the
Dead (passim), Ovid’s Metamorphoses (5.346–
424), Pausanias’s Description of Greece (6.25.2–3),
and Strabo’s Geography (three.2.9). Hades’ epony-
mous realm is the underworld, the kingdom of all
lifeless souls. Together with his wife, Persephone,
who joins him in ruling the underworld, they are
the prime deities of the underworld. The call
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