Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Deity · Individual

Hades

god

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Canonical name
Hades
Disambiguator
god
Kind
Deity
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The immortal wounded divine person in Dione’s account, distinct from the inherited location Hades.

Aliases

3

huge Hades

Epithet · Remembered

Hades of the noble steeds

Epithet · Reported

king of the realms below

Title · Direct

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

3
gates of hell1 observation
·Remembered

Dione recalls Hades being wounded at the gates of hell.

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“huge Hades, when this same man, the son of aegis-bearing Jove, hit him with an arrow even at the gates of hell”
house of Jove1 observation
·Remembered

Dione recalls Hades going to the house of Jove on Olympus.

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“Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus”
Hades1 observation
·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”

Claims

5
·Reported

Dione recounts Hades suffering a shoulder wound and being healed because he was immortal.

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“So, also, did huge Hades, when this same man, the son of aegis-bearing Jove, hit him with an arrow even at the gates of hell, and hurt him badly. Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus, angry and full of pain; and the arrow in his brawny shoulder caused him great anguish till Paeeon healed him by spreading soothing herbs on the wound, for Hades was not of mortal mould.”
·Reported

Agamemnon calls the god Hades utterly ruthless, unyielding, and most hateful to mankind.

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“Hades who is utterly ruthless and unyielding—and hence he is of all gods the one most hateful to mankind”
·Reported

Phoenix says Althaea calls upon the god Hades while kneeling and praying for Meleager’s death.

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“calling upon Hades and on awful Proserpine; she went down upon her knees and her bosom was wet with tears as she prayed that they would kill her son”
·Reported

Neptune says Hades rules the world below and received the darkness of the realms under the earth by lot.

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“Hades who rules the world below. Heaven and earth were divided into three parts, and each of us was to have an equal share. When we cast lots, it fell to me to have my dwelling in the sea for evermore; Hades took the darkness of the realms under the earth”
·Direct

Hades springs panic-stricken from his throne and cries in terror.

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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”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

6
·Remembered
“for Hades was not of mortal mould”
·Direct
“Hades who is utterly ruthless and unyielding”
·Direct
“Hades of the noble steeds”
·Direct
“Hades, strong warden of the gate”
·Remembered
“Hades who rules the world below”
·Direct
“Hades, king of the realms below”

Passage preview

Book 5 · Passage 34

‘Bear it, my child,’ replied Dione, ‘and make the best of it. We dwellers in Olympus have to put up with much at the hands of men, and we lay much suffering on one another. Mars had to suffer when Otus and Ephialtes, children of Aloeus, bound him in cruel bonds, so that he lay thirteen months imprisoned in a vessel of bronze. Mars would have then perished had not fair Eeriboea, stepmother to the sons of Aloeus, told Mercury, who stole him away when he was already well-nigh worn out by the severity of his bondage. Juno, again, suffered when the mighty son of Amphitryon wounded her on the right breast with a three-barbed arrow, and nothing could assuage her pain. So, also, did huge Hades, when this same man, the son of aegis-bearing Jove, hit him with an arrow even at the gates of hell, and hurt him badly. Thereon Hades went to the house of Jove on great Olympus, angry and full of pain; and the arrow in his brawny shoulder caused him great anguish till Paeeon healed him by spreading soothing herbs on the wound, for Hades was not of mortal mould. Daring, head-strong, evildoer who recked not of his sin in shooting the gods that dwell in Olympus. And now Minerva has egged this son of Tydeus on against yourself, fool that he is for not reflecting that no man who fights with gods will live long or hear his children prattling about his knees when he returns from battle. Let, then, the son of Tydeus see that he does not have to fight with one who is stronger than you are. Then shall his brave wife Aegialeia, daughter of Adrestus, rouse her whole house from sleep, wailing for the loss of her wedded lord, Diomed the bravest of the Achaeans.’