![]() ![]() Hades pretended hospitality, but when Theseus and Pirithous sat on his chairs, they were trapped by the coils of snakes. His pride and exceeding protectiveness of Persephone caused him to devise a plan. Thanks to Zeus, however, Hades was already aware of the intentions of the men. Leaving Helen with Theseus’s mother, the two headed to the Underworld where Pirithous’s desired bride, Persephone, awaited. Theseus selected Helen of Troy, who was seven to ten years old at the time, and the two kidnapped her. He and his friend Pirithous decided that they must have the best of wives and should claim daughters of Zeus. Theseus was a Greek hero who in most stories was a son of Poseidon and therefore a nephew of Hades. Whenever Persephone was in the Underworld, Demeter caused winter. Instead, Zeus created a compromise, where Persephone would spend half (or a third) of the year with her husband and the rest with her mother. When Persephone returned to Olympus and admitted she’d eaten Underworld food, Demeter flew into a rage and demanded that Zeus punish their brother. On the way out, Hades handed Persephone pomegranate seeds, which she ate and then was bound to the Underworld. He informed them of the situation and, though Persephone did not want to leave, Hades told her to go for the sake of the world. Hermes travelled to the Underworld and found Persephone perfectly happy with her new husband. Eventually, Hermes sent his daughter to fetch Persephone. She refused to lift the curse, even when all of the other gods entreated her. ![]() ![]() Hades did so, and the two were soon married.ĭemeter responded to this by causing a widespread famine amongst mankind until she was allowed to see Persephone once more. When Zeus discovered this, he gave his permission for Hades to abduct Persephone to the Underworld. Her daughter by their brother Zeus, Persephone, was loved by Hades. Hades, however, enchanted the boulder so that every time it was near the top, it rolled away – trapping Sisyphus for eternity.ĭemeter was both Hades’s sister and his mother-in-law. Sisyphus was sentenced to roll a boulder to the top of a hill, and once he reached it, he would go free. He sent Hermes to drag Sisyphus back to Tartarus, where he set an eternal punishment. Hades was enraged not only by Sisyphus cheating death, but by how he fooled Persephone. When he reached the Underworld, he explained to a sympathetic Persephone that his wife had ‘disrespected’ him, and she let him go. This time, he had his wife throw his naked body into the River Styx without telling her why. While Thanatos was chained, nobody died, infuriating both Hades and the war god Ares. Hades, who took pride on never letting mortals escape his domain, was furious. Sisyphus asked Thanatos how the chains worked and, when the god was explaining, slyly chained him instead, then made his escape. Thanatos, god of death and underling of Hades, was sent to bring Sisyphus to the Underworld and chain him to a rock. ![]() He also seduced his own niece to defeat his brother, but she killed the children she bore. This violated the sacred law of xenia, hospitality, and turned the gods against him. He was not a pleasant man, consumed by greed and spite, which manifested in the murder of guests in his home. Sisyphus was the king who founded Ephyra, later known as Corinth. Enemies, Opponents and Rivals of Hades 1. ![]()
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