![]() The dead are rioting, taking different sides.Īiakos : There's a custom here with all the crafts, the good and noble crafts, that the chief master of art in each shall have his dinner in the assembly hall, and sit by Plouton's side.Īiakos : Until another comes, more wise than he in the same art: then must the first give way. Xanthias : Phoibos Apollon! clap your hand in mine, kiss and be kissed: and prithee tell me this, tell me by Zeus, our rascaldom's own god, what's all that noise within ? What means this hubbub and row?Īiakos : That's Aiskhylos (Aeschylus) and Euripides.Īiakos : Wonderful, wonderful things are going on. O'Neill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.) : "May Haides, whose portion is the earth, seize and fetter thee!"Īristophanes, Frogs 760 ff (trans. Take heed and reply in this manner, that victory may attend your cause."Īeschylus, Doubtul Fragment 243 (from Hesychius, Lexicon s.v. There also among the dead, so men tell, another Zeus holds a last judgment upon misdeeds. "And how can man be pure who would seize from an unwilling father an unwilling bride? For such an act, not even in Haides, after death, shall he escape arraignment for outrage. "Haides, the entertainer of the dead ( nekrodegmôn)." For in your life you were a king of those who have the power to assign the portion of death, and who wield the staff all mortals obey." "A ruler of august majesty, distinguished even beneath the earth, and minister of the mightiest, the deities who rule in the nether world. "For Haides is mighty in holding mortals to account under the earth, and he observes all things and within his mind inscribes them." Once he had fallen, I dealt him yet a third stroke to grace my prayer to the infernal ( khthonios) Zeus, the savior of the dead ( nekrôn sôtêr). "Klytaimestra (Clytemnestra) : Twice I struck him, and with two groans his limbs relaxed. "Theos Khthonios (God of the Underworld) may mean god of the lower world or sullen god."Īeschylus, Agamemnon 1372 ff (trans. "When you go to Aides' house of wailing, down in the dark earth's depths."Īnacreon, Frag 405 (from Scholiast on Hesiod) (trans. "Haides, pitiless in heart, who dwells under the earth." Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or 7th B.C.) : References to Haides in the Iliad and Odyssey, which mostly describe the passage of souls to the underworld, can be found on the Realm of Haides page. Homer, Iliad and Odyssey (Greek epic C8th B.C.) : The following is a miscellaneous collection of references to the god in this role, excluding specific myths and cults. Haides was the king of the underworld and ruler of the shades of the dead. All-ruling, holy God, with glory bright, thee sacred poets and their hymns delight, propitious to thy mystics' works incline, rejoicing come, for holy rites are thine." Of works unseen and seen thy power alone to be the great dispending source is known. ![]() O mighty Daimon, whose decision dread, the future fate determines of the dead, with Demeter's girl captive, through grassy plains, drawn in a four-yoked car with loosened reins, rapt over the deep, impelled by love, you flew till Eleusinia's city rose to view: there, in a wondrous cave obscure and deep, the sacred maid secure from search you keep, the cave of Atthis, whose wide gates display an entrance to the kingdoms void of day. Thy throne is fixed in Haides' dismal plains, distant, unknown to the rest, where darkness reigns where, destitute of breath, pale spectres dwell, in endless, dire, inexorable hell and in dread Akheron (Acheron), whose depths obscure, earth's stable roots eternally secure. To thee, great king, all sovereign earth assigned, the seat of gods and basis of mankind. 'Tis thine abundant annual fruits to bear, for needy mortals are thy constant care. Earth's keys to thee, illustrious king, belong, its secret gates unlocking, deep and strong. Zeus Khthonios (of the Underworld), thy sacred ear incline, and pleased accept these sacred rites divine. Plouton, magnanimous, whose realms profound are fixed beneath the firm and solid ground, in the Tartarean plains remote from sight, and wrapt for ever in the depths of night. This page describes his various divine roles, beginning with general descriptions of the lord of the dead, followed by sections covering his role as the god of funeral rites, necromancy, the curse of the Erinyes, dreams, and the mineral wealth of the earth.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES HYMNS TO HADES HAIDES (Hades) was the king of the underworld and god of the dead. ![]() Pluto, Dis Persephone and Hades, Athenian red-figure kylix C5th B.C., British Museum
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