Creative Writing: The Missing Legend: Greece

Another literary element that presents the story’s theme is the plot. According to Routledge (2013) the Hades is an ancient Greek that means a place where the wicked dead reside and are punished. The Hades

Hades is the Greek God and ruler of the Underworld. He is often associated with wealth and agriculture. He is also the son of Cronus and Rhea and the third most powerful Greek god. Unlike his two brothers, his realm cannot be seen by anyone living. The Greeks believe that his name, Hades, means “The Unseen One.” He is the only god that does not live on Mount Olympus; he has his own glittering palace made of pure gold and gems in the Underworld. The Greeks believe that when mortals

     Hades is one of the brothers of Zeus. He is the unlucky one who got to rule the underworld. He is cruel and unforgiving. Only two have ever gone to Hades domain and returned, Hercules and Odysseus. Hades fell in love with Zeus’s daughter and devised a plan to abduct her. With Zeus’s help they succeeded in the capture of Persephone. Her mother Demeter was so enraged she cursed the Earth. She continued the curse even after she was released. It was only after her mother Rhea was allowed to see her that she let the Earth prosper (message).

Hey! You! Yeah, you. You should go on a kamikaze mission so you can join the armies of the dead! Hades is the god of the dead, and he is in charge of The Underworld. In addition he is the keeper of the paths by which the dead come to him. Hades (sometimes called Pluto) was the oldest of three brothers, who were Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. In this paper we will be hitting on the origin of Hades, the division of power between the three brothers, and what people thought of Hades as a deity overall (GreekMythology.com).

It was about an hour later that I decided to sit and curl up, figuring I was a safe enough distance from Hades, and wept harder still. It wasn’t until so deeply wounded by him that everything became clear. I now knew why I couldn’t breathe and my heart did funny things around him. I knew why he made me dizzy and why I craved his companionship so. When Hades said I was bound to him, he didn’t know right he was, fruit or no fruit. I was in love with him. It was during this revelation that I heard someone approach and I attempted to silence my cries.

The primary ruling god of the underworld is Hades whose brother is Zeus, king of the gods, and whose parents are Cronus and Rhea. Hades is a greedy god with his greatest concern being to increase the number of his subjects. He is very stubborn about letting

The aim of my report is to explain how the view of the afterlife in Ancient Greece has shaped works of art, books and the mentality of people. In order to do this I am going to explore how ancient Greek people saw the underworld as well as Roman people and the Renaissance period. Because Greeks saw the underworld as a dark, dreadful and gloomy place, many of the works that refer to it, either in Roman times or the Renaissance, are influenced by this view. In particular works like the Odyssey by Homer or The Phaedo by Plato, explained to a certain level the structure of the afterlife in ancient Greece. These two pieces of literature severely influenced works like the book VI of the Aeneid by Virgil where he depicts the underworld referencing to the Greek point of view. But a deeper description of the underworld is given by Dante in his Divine Comedy where he uses Virgil as his guide, from the depths of hell to the Purgatory while Beatrice, Dante’s ideal woman, guides him through heaven. All these time periods shared the idea of the underworld as being a place where souls pay the sins they committed during their lives.

Hades is seen as an evil figure, but he just tries to keep a balance.

Regardless of the time frame, Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s epic the Iliad share both a copious amount of similarities and differences. For example, many common themes such as heroism, fate, and destiny are apparent in both works. Within the Aeneid and the Iliad, it is seen that the wars going on during that time were glorious that is why the role of gods were significant in leading both Aeneas and Achilles and influencing fate. In both texts, it is clear from the beginning that the role of the gods is to make Aeneas and Achilles fulfill their journey The Iliad focuses on the end of the Trojan War and the damaging power, while the Aeneid is focused during the aftermath of the war and underlies the foundation for the new civilization. This paper will address and argue the comparison of the role of gods and how each of the authors representation of the gods have influence on the lives of mortals.

Whereas Poseidon got the sea and Zeus got the sky, Hades had received the Underworld. One myth of Hades is that he was unhappy about the turnout. Although

Amy Rose’s article, Vergil’s Ship-Snake Simile, explores the importance of the snake similes presented throughout book two and book five of the Aeneid. Specifically, there are important differences with how these snake similes are depicted in these two books, which Rose focuses on and examines their significance to the story. This article suggests that stark differences between these two books shines a light on Aeneas’ change of fortune since the fall of Troy. Rose further extends the argument to encompass that these snakes also symbolize Aeneas’ newfound responsibility to his followers. Therefore, the snake similes suggest Aeneas’ change of fortune and his newfound responsibility.

Hades, the evil genius, is out to seek revenge on the other Gods because he feels he is unappreciated and powerless, compared to his all mighty brother Zeus and other family members. At the beginning of Hercules, Hades was simply a mistreated God who Zeus had selfishly forced to be the God of the Underworld; a dreadful, miserable place where souls go to suffer. Hades rarely has an important role in the lives of the other Gods, who spend their time living on Olympus; a wonderful and lively kingdom. Hades is jealous of the fortune of the other gods living on Olympus. He states, “but unlike you gods lounging about up here...I regrettably have a full-time gig...that you, by the way, so charitably bestowed on me” Hades is the ruler of the underworld, as he calls it, a dark and gloomy place, as well as, always full of dead people. So he feels he has been treated unfair and deserves more. Unfortunately there is no way to change this fact, unless you are Hades of course. Hades, being the evil genius he is, has a plan to take revenge on the Gods. In this plan he intends to destroy Olympus and rule the Gods forever. Because Hades is less fortunate than the other Gods, he is very overlooked by them. He feels that he has been put in a place where he cannot truly be a

The realm of the dead is under his control because of the war with the Titans. Hades is known to be cruel, unfriendly, and ruthless. Snakes are sacred to him since he used to be a snake god called Zeus Meilichios. Demeter is the Goddess of Agriculture and Zeus is the King of All Gods. Zeus and Demeter have a

For the past two thousand years, an innumerable number of authors, poets and even play-writes, have portrayed the descent into hell, or catabasis, in some artistic medium. A famous and early representation of catabasis includes Book XI of Homer’s Odyssey. Vergil, centuries later, adapted Homer’s model and created his own version of the underworld in Book VI of Aeneid. These ancient texts, and likely others, provided the groundwork for numerous receptions of hell, with each work symbolizing a link in an intricate chain of classical receptions. Within this complex chain, I intend to discuss three works that portray different versions of hell: Vergil’s Aeneid (29 BC), from his Divine Comedy, Dante’s Inferno (1320), and Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now (1979).

“Mortal, why have you come to the gates of the Underworld? Tell me, then, of your adventures,” said Charon, the ferryman of Hades.