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HADES. By: Charity H. Ashton Date: December, 14, 2010 Teacher: Ms. Jamie Berfield Table of Contents 1.Hades Family 2.Intresting Things About Hades 3.Hades Possessions 4.The Underworld; Hades Home 5.Myths With Hades. Hades Family. Hades parents are Cronos and Rhea.
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HADES By: Charity H. Ashton Date: December, 14, 2010 Teacher: Ms. Jamie Berfield Table of Contents 1.Hades Family 2.Intresting Things About Hades 3.Hades Possessions 4.The Underworld; Hades Home 5.Myths With Hades
Hades Family • Hades parents are Cronos and Rhea. • Hades siblings are Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. • Hades wife is Persephone. • Hades has a three headed guard dog named Cerberus, who I consider a part of his family.
Hades FamilyPersephone • Persephone is stuck in the Underworld part of the year, because she ate one seed of a pomegranate. • When Persephone is in the Underworld it’s always winter. • Persephone and Hades are both said to not be loyal to each other.
Interesting things about Hades • Greeks often call Hades Pluto, because they think if they say his name he might beckon [have them die]. • Hades is the lord of the Underworld. • Even though he was the god of death he wasn’t evil.
Hades Possessions • Cyclopes’ gave Hades a helmet of invisibility, to help defeat Cronos. • Hades has a staff to beckon the dead to his realm. • Hades owned all the precious and metal gems on Earth.
The Underworld; Hades Home • Hades is the god of death and the dead. • If you eat the food of the Underworld you are stuck in the Underworld forever. • Hades judges decide were souls go, and if they’re evil what their punishment is.
The Underworld; Hades HomeRivers • To get to the Underworld you have to cross Styx. • The ferryman Charon made you pay one coin to cross Styx. • Once your past Styx there is four other rivers you have to cross, The Archon, Phlegethon, Cocytus, and Lethe.
The Underworld; Hades HomeSections • There are three sections where a spirit can be sent. • The good are sent to Elysium, the bad were sent to Tartarus, and the average souls are sent to the Asphodel Fields. • The Asphodel Fields took up most of the Underworld.
Myths with Hades • Hercules once borrowed Cerberus to complete his last burden. • Hercules once came to the Underworld to save a queen from death. • Once Sisyphus kept Hades tied up.