Hades
Hades
not noted
Acheron, Cocytus, Hell
Abode of the dead. Though Acheron may be used as a synonym, it also exists separately as a river within Hades.
this is a mythical/unmappable place.
region
Events
- Eurydice dies
- Orpheus goes to Hades to get Eurydice
- Tityus punished in Hades
- Side is cast down into Hades
- Persephone is tricked into eating pomegranate seeds from Hades
- Demeter puts a heavy rock on top of Ascalaphus
- Sisyphus punished in Hades
- Alcestis dies in Admetus’ place
- Hercules goes to Hades to get Cerberus
- Hercules meets the ghost of Meleager in Hades
- Hercules meets the ghost of Medusa in Hades
- Hercules removes the heavy stone from Ascalaphus
- Hercules kills one of Hades’ cows
- Hercules wrestles with Menoetes
- Pirithous punished in Hades for making advances on Persephone
- Hercules bring Cerberus back to Hades
- Rhadamanthys and Minos act as judges in Hades
- Dionysus fetches Semele from Hades
- Theseus goes to Hades to get Persephone for Pirithous
- Hades binds Theseus and Pirithous to the Chair of Forgetfulness
- Hercules saves Theseus from Hades
- Hercules fails to rescue Pirithous from Hades
- Tantalus is punished with hunger and thirst in Hades
- Hermes retrieves Protesilaus from Hades
- Aeacus is the keeper of Hades’ keys
- Hades fears Poseidon will crack the earth and expose his domain
Citations
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 1.2
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 2.1
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 2.5
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 3.2
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.1
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 4.3
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.3
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 9.3
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.12
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 1.2
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 5.3
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 10.7
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 12.6
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.23
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 1.24
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 2.1
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 3.30
- Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.26
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 1, Section 1
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 3, Section 267
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 3, Section 310
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 5, Section 381
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 5, Section 626
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 6, Section 263
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 6, Section 390
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 6, Section 482
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 7, Section 120
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 7, Section 327
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 8, Section 1
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 8, Section 357
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 9, Section 307
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 11, Section 47
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 11, Section 248
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 13, Section 402
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 14, Section 445
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 15, Section 246
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 16, Section 843
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 20, Section 288
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 20, Section 318
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 21, Section 34
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 22, Section 30
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 22, Section 188
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 22, Section 361
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 22, Section 381
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 22, Section 416
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 22, Section 460
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 12
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 69
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 99
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 127
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 177
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 23, Section 226
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 228
- Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 24, Section 571
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 17.5
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 5.1
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 31.2
- Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 37.5
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