Hades is the brother of
Zeus.
As Zeus shared out the world he ascribed him the underworld. The same as
all his brothers and sisters he was eaten by Kronus and later liberated by Zeus. Together they fought against the
Titans.
Except of some
cases he was inconsiderate and severe and never let anybody leave his Kingdom
once they had arrived. He was allied with the demons and some ghosts as
Charon, the sailor who escorts the
souls of the dead over the
Styx
into the kingdom of the dead. Hades fall in love with Persephone,
the daughter of Artemis, and
raped her in his empire.
Some famous
heroes as Heracles, Orpheus or Odysseus succeeded to return alive out of
the kingdom of the dead. This kingdom was a quite dark and sad place
where people couldn't find pleasure. Tantalos or
Sisyphos, for instance, got punished very hard: Tantalos
was standing with water till the hips
and tasteful fruits growing above his head. If he tried to reach the
tree it moved away, if he tried to drink from the water it moved also away.
The Beginning / Gods of the Olympus / Smaller Gods
