and two vultures sat, one on either side, and tore his liver, plunging their beaks into his bowels, nor could he beat them off with his hands. For he had offered violence to Leto, the glorious wife of Zeus, as she went toward Pytho through Panopeus with ...
Hades' Wife Since Hades was a fearsome deity who rarely left his kingdom, there are very fewmythsabout him in Ancient Greek sources. The Abduction of Persephone By far the most important myth is Hades’ abduction ofPersephone, Demeter’s daughter. That was one of the few times Hades travele...
And don’t eat any pomegranates or you’ll be trapped there like his wife Persephone. Hades, known to the Romans as Pluto, has an enormous guard dog named Cerberus keeping watch on the entrance to the Underworld. The sign on Hell’s Gate does not read ‘Beware of the Dog’. It reads...
Possibly, however, you regard this as an old wife's tale, and despise it."Plato, Apology 40e (trans. Fowler) : "Sokrates : If death is, as it were, a change of habitation from here to some other place, and if what we are told is true, that all the dead are there, what great...
Greek Mythology Explanation/Description: Implication (When you see this term in a poem or text, what is the purpose of including this reference?) Aphrodite/Venus Aphrodite is the goddess of love, beauty, pleasure and eternal youth. Ironically she is the wife of the ugliest gods Hephaestus and...
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Pirithous attempted to kidnap Hades' wife, and for that he was kept as a prisoner in the Underworld. In some versions of the myth, he is not actually tortured. Hades' nickname "The Generous Host" is reference to him always having room in the Underworld for one more soul. ...
underworld of Greek mythologyAn 18th-century engraving depicting the underworld of Greek mythology, showing (foreground) Charon, the ferryman, in his boat; (bottom left) Cerberus, the three-headed dog guarding the entrance; and (centre left) Hades, ruler of the underworld, and his wife, Perseph...
"[Deianeira, wife of Herakles, laments :] ‘My lord is ever absent from me . . . ever pursuing monsters and dreadful beasts. I myself, at home and widowed, am busied with chaste prayers, in torment lest my husband fall by the savage foe; with serpents and with boars and ravening ...