Hades

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Hades important things

 * 1) God of Underworld
 * 2) Zeus's brother
 * 3) Dealt with criminals
 * 4) Stole Persephone to be his wife
 * 5) Side kicks included
 * 6) Cereberus and the Erinyes
 * 7) Tried to take over the world
 * 8) He failed
 * 9) Referenced in modern works

**Family Information:** Hades, unfortunately was put in a miserable situations. Him and his two brothers Poseiden and Zeus, shortly after defeating their father Cronus, decided to split the world up into differnet sections. Zeus and Poseiden recieved the benefit of this situation with Hades having to rule the underworld, in other words ruling all the dead people. Due to this hatred and jelousy Hades is a very greedy God, gaining as many people as he can, and never letting the people he gains leave his fiery pit. **Criminals:** Hades also dealt with criminals, for instance Sisyphos is condemned to roll a rock up a hill for eternity in the Land of the Dead. While he is rolling the rock in this ancient greek vase, the gods Hades and Persephone sit on either side of him. http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Haides.html **Hades personal life:** Hades, living by himself in the underworld found himself lonely one day, and determined that he needed bride. To meet his wants he asked his brother Zeus if he could have one of his daughters. His brother Zeus said no, and he found Persephone, the daughter of Demeter. However, knowing that the goddess would resist the marriage, he assented to the forceful abduction of the girl. When Demeter, the bringer of the seasons, learned of this, she was furious and created a long winter until her daughter was returned. Zeus was forced to give in and return Demeter's daughter for mankinds sake, and the girl was fetched forth from the underworld. However, since she had tasted the pomegranate seed she had to return to the underworld every year. The story of the Promegranate seeds is that Persephone had ate some, and therefore had to return to the underworld 3 months of every year. **Irony?:** What makes him different from most Gods is that he didn't like company. Many other Gods went to olympus to meet with each other and talk, and Hades rarely showed up unless the topic of discussion involved him. This made him more socially deprived than other God, and caused many problems for the common people. **What exactly was Hades job in the Underworld?** As spoken about earlier, Hades gained control of the Underworld, after him and his siblings were released from the Titan Kronus. Soon after gaining the Underworld Hades became defensive, claiming that he owned everything from the ground down, including all the gems and stones in the soil. Hades did not welcome "visitors" and rarely let anyone who entered the Underworld leave again. Cerberus, a vicious, three-headed watchdog, stood guard at the locked gate, making sure the dead remained in the Underworld. Although Hades was labeled as the ruler of the Underworld he actually was no that evil nor good (obviously). What makes him not so evil is that he did not torture dead people or anything, he just ruled over them. The Erinyes were in charge of the torturing and such, but none-the-less he was never called by his real name by mortals, for the mortals were afraid of drawing his attention. http://www.greek-mythology-gods.com/hades.html **Examples of Hades in Modern Entertainment** This link will take you to some of the clips of the best movie ever:) Best Movie Ever ([|Hercules)] = Works Cited = Atsma, Aaron. __Hades.__ 2000-2008. 27 January 2009 .  __ Hades-Prince of Darkness . __ 2005. 27 January 2009 . __ Hercules. __ Dirs. Ron Clements and John Musker. Perf. Animated Character. 1997.