Editing Hades (section)

===Lovers of Hades===
[[Leuce (mythology)|Leuce]] was the most beautiful of the nymphs and a daughter of [[Oceanus]]. Hades fell in love with her and abducted her to the underworld. She lived out the span of her life in his realm, and when she died, the god sought consolation by creating a suitable memorial of their love: in the [[Elysium|Elysian Fields]] where the pious spend their afterlife, he brought a white tree into existence. It was this tree with which Heracles crowned himself to celebrate his [[Descent to the underworld|return from the underworld]].<ref>[[Maurus Servius Honoratus|Servius]], note to ''[[Eclogues|Eclogue]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2007.01.0091%3Apoem%3D7%3Acommline%3D61 7.61]: ''Leuce, Oceani filia, inter nymphas pulcherrima fuit. hanc Pluton adamavit et ad inferos rapuit. quae postquam apud eum completo vitae suae tempore mortua est, Pluton tam in amoris, quam in memoriae solacium in Elysiis piorum campis leucen nasci arborem iussit, ex qua, sicut dictum est, Hercules se, revertens ab inferis, coronavit.''</ref>

[[Minthe]] was a [[nymph]] of the [[River gods (Greek mythology)|river]] [[Cocytus]] who became Hades's mistress.<ref>[[Photius I of Constantinople|Patriarch Photius]], ''Lexicon'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=RoRiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA572 μίνθα]</ref> A jealous [[Persephone]] trampled the nymph under her foot, transforming her into [[Mentha|garden mint]] in the process.<ref>[[Strabo]], ''[[Geographica]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Strab.+8.3.14 8.3.14]</ref><ref>[[Ovid]], ''[[Metamorphoses]]'' [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi006.perseus-eng1:10.652 10.728–730].</ref> According to a scholiast on [[Nicander]], Hades turned his dead lover into the [[Mentha|mint]] herb after Persephone tore her into pieces for sleeping with him.<ref>[[Scholia]] ad [[Nicander|Nicandri]] ''Alexipharmaca'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zy2LWzF4v3oC&pg=PA212 375]</ref><ref>[[William Smith (lexicographer)|William Smith]], ''[[Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0104%3Aalphabetic+letter%3DM%3Aentry+group%3D26%3Aentry%3Dmintha-bio-1 Mintha]</ref> In another version, Hades had kept Minthe as his mistress before he married Persephone, and set her aside afterwards. Minthe boasted of being more beautiful than Persephone, and that Hades would soon take her back. In anger over the [[hubris]] directed toward her daughter, [[Demeter]] trampled Minthe and turned her into mint.<ref>[[Oppian]], ''Halieutica'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Oppian/Halieutica/3*.html#482 3.485]</ref>

Theophile was a girl who claimed that Hades loved her and that she was better than Persephone.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://epigraphy.packhum.org/text/182847|title=CIRB 130 - PHI Greek Inscriptions|website=epigraphy.packhum.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2020/03/17/hades-newest-bride-a-remarkable-epitaph-2/|title = Hades' Newest Bride: A Remarkable Epitaph|date = 17 March 2020}}</ref>