Hades
Hades,son of Cronus and Rhea (Hesiod Theogonia 453–56) and husband of Persephone (Odyssey 10. 491), is ‘Lord of the dead’ (Iliad 20. 61) and king of the Underworld, the ‘house of Hades’ (Homer, Hesiod), where he rules supreme and, exceptionally, administers justice (Aeschylus Supplices 228–31, Eumenides 273–5). After Homer, Hades is not only the god of the dead, but also the god of death, even death personified (Semonides 1. 14; Pindar Pythian Odes 5. 96, Nemean Odes 10. 67, Isthmian Odes 6. 15; Sophocles Antigone 581; Euripides Alcestis 262; R. Seaford on Euripides Cyclops 397). Hades refers normally to the person; in non-Attic literature, the word can also designate the Underworld (Iliad 23. 244; Odyssey 11. 635; Heraclitus H. Diels and W. Kranz, Fragmente der Vorsokratiker 22 B 98; Anac. 50. 9f. Page, Luke 16. 23)....
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