Hades - Mythopedia
2022年12月7日 · Led by the mighty Zeus, Hades and his siblings took part in the Titanomachy—a cataclysmic struggle between the old gods, the Titans, and the new gods, the Olympians. According to Homer’s Iliad, the victorious brothers—Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades—took advantage of their male privilege and distributed power among the gods and goddesses.
Zeus - Mythopedia
2023年9月20日 · His siblings were the gods Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Poseidon, and Hades. Zeus eventually led his siblings in a war against Cronus and the other Titans. After winning the war and banishing the Titans to Tartarus, Zeus and his siblings—dubbed the “Olympians” because they lived atop Mount Olympus—appointed themselves the new rulers of the ...
Persephone – Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Persephone was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the wife of Hades, and the queen of the Underworld. Her most important myth tells of how Hades abducted her, then tricked her into eating something in the Underworld so that she could never leave. Not even her mother, Demeter, could bring her home.
Cronus - Mythopedia
2023年3月8日 · First, Zeus forced Cronus to regurgitate the other children—Hestia, Hera, Demeter, Hades, and Poseidon—whom Cronus had swallowed as soon as they were born. Zeus and his siblings then banded together against their father and became known as the Olympians, so named for their home on Mount Olympus.
Demeter – Mythopedia
2023年4月24日 · One of the children of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, Demeter was the sister of Zeus, Hestia, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon. Her most famous daughter was Persephone—the bride of Hades and the mistress of the Underworld. Rarely meddling in others’ affairs, Demeter was among the most beloved and least controversial of all Greek deities. Her most ...
Rhea - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Rhea married her younger brother Cronus, and together they had six children: Demeter, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Poseidon and Zeus. By way of her children's extensive sexual liaisons, Rhea was grandmother to a significant portion of the Greek pantheon, including Ares, Hephaestus, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Hermes, and Dionysus. Family Tree
Perseus - Mythopedia
2023年7月3日 · He then cut off Medusa’s head using Zeus’ sword. When Medusa’s blood spilled to the earth, the winged horse Pegasus and his brother Chrysaor were born. Using Hades’ helmet of invisibility, Perseus snatched away Medusa’s severed head and escaped. Andromeda. As Perseus made his way home, he passed through Ethiopia.
Homeric Hymns: 2. To Demeter (Full Text) - Mythopedia
(347–356) “Dark-haired Hades, ruler over the departed, father Zeus bids me bring noble Persephone forth from Erebus unto the gods, that her mother may see her with her eyes and cease from her dread anger with the immortals; for now she plans an awful deed, to destroy the weakly tribes of earthborn men by keeping seed hidden beneath the ...
Tartarus - Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Tartarus, a dark primordial landscape below the earth and even Hades, was the home of a handful of sinners and hated enemies of the gods. Zeus, for example, cast his defeated foes into Tartarus—first Cronus and the Titans , [16] and later the monster Typhoeus (Tartarus’ own son, perversely enough).
Hecate – Mythopedia
2023年3月9日 · Eventually, Zeus forced Hades to restore Persephone to Demeter for at least part of the year. The girl was at last reunited with her mother and with Hecate, who became her attendant and continued to receive great honors in the cult of Demeter and Persephone (as a reward for helping with Demeter’s search).