Editing Hades (section)

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[[File:The Abduction of Persephone by Pluto, Amphipolis.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|''The Abduction of Persephone by Pluto'', [[Amphipolis]], [[Greece]].]]

Once, when a plague hit [[Aonia]], a region in [[Boeotia]], the people consulted an oracle, and the [[Apollo|god]] replied to them that they needed to make an appeal to the gods of the Underworld and sacrifice two willing young maidens to appease the anger of Hades and Persephone. The girls that were chosen were [[Menippe and Metioche]], the daughters of [[Orion (mythology)|Orion]], who solemnly offered their lives in order to save their countrymen. After invoking the chthonic deities three times, they took their own lives with the shuttles of their looms. Hades and Persephone then took pity in both of them, and transformed their corpses into [[comet]]s.<ref>[[Antoninus Liberalis]], ''Metamorphoses'' [https://topostext.org/work/216#25 25]</ref>

In some versions Hades is considered the master of the goddesses of [[Moirai|Fate]], not his brother Zeus and the god who designates the end and origin of all things and orders the alternation of birth and destruction, the arbiter of life and death. This relationship is very clear in Roman epics like [[Statius]]'s ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'',<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/StatiusThebaidVIII.php#anchor_Toc342643142 8.28-29]</ref> where they are mentioned taking souls to be judged by Hades and inflicting severe punishments or in [[Claudian]]'s ''De raptu Proserpinae''<ref>[[Claudian]], ''De raptu Proserpinae'' [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Claudian/De_Raptu_Proserpinae/1*.html#p297 1.32-48]</ref> where they appear begging their master not to release the [[Titans]] and saying everything they do is for him, after Hades threatens Zeus to release the Titans against him if he does not give him a wife.

Hades is considered the father of the [[Furies]] in some versions, but the mother's identity varies. in [[Virgil]]'s ''[[Aeneid]]'' their mother is the night goddess [[Nyx]]<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Aabo%3Aphi%2C0690%2C003%3A7%3A339 6.250]</ref> and in the ''[[Orphic Hymns]]'' their mother is Persephone<ref>''[[Orphic Hymns]] 29 to [[Persephone]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=rvSuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA68 11]</ref> by Hades.<ref>''[[Orphic Hymns]] 70 to the [[Erinyes|Furies]]'' [https://books.google.com/books?id=rvSuDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA151 4-5]</ref> One of the rare occasions when he appears interacting with them is in [[Statius]]'s ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'',<ref>[[Statius]], ''[[Thebaid (Latin poem)|Thebaid]]'' [https://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Latin/StatiusThebaidVIII.php#anchor_Toc342643142 8.73-77]</ref> when Hades orders Tisiphone to punish humans for having invaded the [[Greek underworld|underworld]]. He is said to hate [[Alecto]], even though she is one of his children.<ref>[[Virgil]], ''[[Aeneid]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/245#7.286 7.328]</ref>

In contrast to many of his other classical representations the satirical author [[Lucian]] of [[Samosata]] presents Hades in a more positive and even comic way. In his ''Dialogues of the Dead'', he is represented trying to solve problems of some famous mythological figures and one of the most outstanding dialogues is with [[Protesilaus]], one of the Greek heroes killed in the [[Trojan War]]. In this conversation Protesilaus asks him to be reunited with his (still living) lover, and brings up as example that Hades did the same for [[Admetus]] and [[Alcestis]], [[Orpheus]] and [[Eurydice]], and that he himself also knows what being in love is like. Hades is skeptical, but Persephone manages to persuade him.<ref>[[Lucian]], ''Dialogues of the Dead'' [https://pt.calameo.com/read/000107044fc0f01286992 Protesilaus, Pluto and Persephone]</ref>

According to [[Hesiod]], when the monstrous [[Typhon]] attacked the Olympian gods, Hades is said to have trembled in fear in the underworld while [[Zeus]] fought Typhon above.<ref>[[Hesiod]], ''[[Theogony]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D820 850]</ref>

In one of [[Plato]]'s dialogues, Socrates talks about Hades as a figure capable of making everyone fall by his enchantments<ref>[[Plato]], ''[[Cratylus (dialogue)|Cratylus]]'' [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0172%3Atext%3DCrat.%3Apage%3D403 403c]</ref> and that is why no one ever leaves the underworld, including the sirens.<ref>[[Plato]], ''[[Cratylus (dialogue)|Cratylus]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0172%3Atext%3DCrat.%3Asection%3D403d 403d]</ref>