·Hypothetical
Hector wishes hypothetically to see Alexandrus go down into the house of Hades.
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“Could I but see him go down into the house of Hades, my heart would forget its heaviness”
Location · Individual
Hades
Published entity metadata
Read-only identity and editorial metadata.
- Canonical name
- Hades
- Disambiguator
- None
- Kind
- Location
- Scope
- Individual
- Parent location
- None
- Editorial note
- No editorial note published.
Aliases
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house of Hades
Descriptive reference · Hypothetical
Present entities
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
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Present entities
Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.
·Remembered
Andromache recalls that all seven of her brothers went into the house of Hades.
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“I had seven brothers in my father’s house, but on the same day they all went within the house of Hades”
·Direct
Coon went down into the house of Hades after being killed.
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“When noble Coon, Antenor’s eldest son, saw this, sore indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother. Unseen by Agamemnon he got beside him, spear in hand, and wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the point of the spear going right through the arm. Agamemnon was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon Coon who was trying to drag off the body of his brother—his father’s son—by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest of his comrades; but Agamemnon struck him with a bronzeshod spear and killed him as he was dragging the dead body through the press of men under cover of his shield: he then cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamas. Thus did the sons of Antenor meet their fate at the hands of the son of Atreus, and go down into the house of Hades”
·Direct
Iphidamas went down into the house of Hades after being killed.
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“When noble Coon, Antenor’s eldest son, saw this, sore indeed were his eyes at the sight of his fallen brother. Unseen by Agamemnon he got beside him, spear in hand, and wounded him in the middle of his arm below the elbow, the point of the spear going right through the arm. Agamemnon was convulsed with pain, but still not even for this did he leave off struggling and fighting, but grasped his spear that flew as fleet as the wind, and sprang upon Coon who was trying to drag off the body of his brother—his father’s son—by the foot, and was crying for help to all the bravest of his comrades; but Agamemnon struck him with a bronzeshod spear and killed him as he was dragging the dead body through the press of men under cover of his shield: he then cut off his head, standing over the body of Iphidamas. Thus did the sons of Antenor meet their fate at the hands of the son of Atreus, and go down into the house of Hades”
·Direct
Hades is physically present in the realms below beneath the earth.
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“Hades, king of the realms below, was struck with fear; he sprang panic-stricken from his throne and cried aloud in terror lest Neptune, lord of the earthquake, should crack the ground over his head, and lay bare his mouldy mansions”
·Hypothetical
Priam considers the possibility that Lycaon is already dead and in Hades.
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“even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoe peeress among women bore me. Should they be still alive and in the hands of the Achaeans, we will ransom them with gold and bronze, of which we have store, for the old man Altes endowed his daughter richly; but if they are already dead and in the house of Hades”
·Hypothetical
Priam considers the possibility that Polydorus is already dead and in Hades.
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“even now I miss two sons from among the Trojans who have thronged within the city, Lycaon and Polydorus, whom Laothoe peeress among women bore me. Should they be still alive and in the hands of the Achaeans, we will ransom them with gold and bronze, of which we have store, for the old man Altes endowed his daughter richly; but if they are already dead and in the house of Hades”
·Hypothetical
Achilles says that even when he is in Hades he will not forget Patroclus.
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“When Achilles had done spoiling Hector of his armour, he stood among the Argives and said, ‘My friends, princes and counsellors of the Argives, now that heaven has vouchsafed us to overcome this man, who has done us more hurt than all the others together, consider whether we should not attack the city in force, and discover in what mind the Trojans may be. We should thus learn whether they will desert their city now that Hector has fallen, or will still hold out even though he is no longer living. But why argue with myself in this way, while Patroclus is still lying at the ships unburied, and unmourned—he whom I can never forget so long as I am alive and my strength fails not? Though men forget their dead when once they are within the house of Hades, yet not even there will I forget the comrade whom I have lost”
·Hypothetical
Priam says that his sorrow will bring him down to Hades.
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“the bitterness of my sorrow will bring me down to the house of Hades”
·Reported
Achilles addresses Patroclus as being in the house of Hades.
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“‘Fare well,’ he cried, ‘Patroclus, even in the house of Hades.”
·Reported
Achilles again addresses Patroclus as being in the house of Hades.
See evidence text
“‘Fare well,’ he cried, ‘Patroclus, even in the house of Hades; I am now doing all that I have promised you.”
Claims
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·Reported
Nestor says the souls of the dead Achaeans have descended to the house of Hades.
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“their souls have gone down to the house of Hades”
·Reported
Jove uses Hades as the depth-marker beneath which Tartarus lies as far as heaven stands above earth.
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“as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth”
·Reported
Minerva describes Hades as the house to which Eurystheus sent Hercules for the hell-hound.
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“Eurystheus sent him to the house of Hades, to fetch the hell-hound from Erebus”
·Direct
Hades’s mouldy mansions are so ghastly and grim that even gods shudder at them, and Neptune’s earthquake threatens to expose them to mortals and immortals.
See evidence text
“Hades, king of the realms below, was struck with fear; he sprang panic-stricken from his throne and cried aloud in terror lest Neptune, lord of the earthquake, should crack the ground over his head, and lay bare his mouldy mansions to the sight of mortals and immortals—mansions so ghastly grim that even the gods shudder to think of them”
·Direct
Hector’s departing soul flies down to the house of Hades.
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“the shrouds of death enfolded him, whereon his soul went out of him and flew down to the house of Hades”
·Reported
Patroclus described Hades as having a river beyond which the dead gather and wide gates beside which he wandered.
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“the ghosts, vain shadows of men that can labour no more, drive me away from them; they will not yet suffer me to join those that are beyond the river, and I wander all desolate by the wide gates of the house of Hades.”
Additional evidence
Evidence records not already represented by a claim.
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·Direct
“down to Hades”
·Hypothetical
“enter the house of Hades”
·Hypothetical
“as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth”
·Simile
“the gates of hell”
·Direct
“hurrying down to Hades”
·Direct
“passing into the house of Hades”
·Hypothetical
“go down into the house of Hades”
·Direct
“his mouldy mansions”
·Hypothetical
“the house of Hades”
·Direct
“his soul went out of him and flew down to the house of Hades”
·Direct
“the house of Hades”
·Direct
“the house of Hades”