Hades and the underworld

1. BY CELIA CARRANZA
AND LARA SÁNCHEZ.
1º ESO 2012-13.
IES FRAY PEDRO DE
URBINA

2. Biography of Hades
• He had at his side "Persephone", no less cruel.
She was abducted by Hades in the plains of Sicily,
was his niece.
• When Heracles descended to the underworld,
Hades wanted to prevent the entry into his
kingdom and faced him, but Hades was
wounded by an arrow in the shoulder and the
god had to be taken quickly to Olympus, where
Peon ("god of heal") applied a miraculous balm
and the wound healed quickly.

3. The reason for his name
• For many people, simply
to say his name was
terrible, so they used
euphemisms.
Precious minerals came
from the depths of the
Earth (the underworld
governed by Hades), it
was considered that had
control of minerals. So it
was called: `` Πλουτων
Plouton'' (related to
wealth).

4. FAMILY
• Hades was the son of Titan
Cronos, god of time, and
Rhea, the goddess of the
earth.
• His brothers were:
Poseidon, god of the sea,
and Zeus, the god of gods,
sky and thunder.

5. Kingdom of Hades
• His kingdom was that of
the dead. In Greek
mythology it was the
entrance to the
underworld, located at
Avernus (a crater near
Cumae).

6. History of the Underworld
• For the Hellenes, the dead entered the underworld by
crossing the Acheron River, pointed by Charon. They
had to pay an obolus (small coin to be put in the
mouth of the deceased). The poor without family and
friends were meeting for a hundred years on near the
bank of the river.
• The Greeks offered the possibility for the deceased to
return to the upper world to pursue those who had not
given a proper funeral. The other side of the river was
guarded by Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hades.

7. Cerberus and Charon (Caronte)