Argonautica was written by Apollonius. Related Articles See also Proserpina. Hesiod had repeatedly said in his Theogony that Zeus had given Hecate honour above all.
Hecate can bestow wealth on anyone who prayed and sacrificed to her. Hecate has shares of all the wealth in heaven Olympus , earth and in the Underworld. This is because she have a role to play as moon-goddess, earth fertility goddess and goddess of the Underworld. She was sometimes confused with Rhea , Demeter and Persephone as an earth-goddess and goddess of fertility.
Again she is confused with Persephone as goddess of the Underworld. She was goddess of night and known as the invisible goddess, where she was accompanied by hell-hounds. Speaking of Persephone, Hecate tried to comfort Demeter , when Hades abducted her daughter. It was she who suggested that Demeter speak with Helius , the sun god who sees everything that happened below him.
Like Artemis and Selene , she was goddess of the moon, but she was associated with dark side of the moon. Hecate had also being identified with Iphigeneia , daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. According to the Catalogues of Women , Hesiod says that when the Greeks sacrificed Iphigeneia, Artemis transformed the maiden into the goddess Hecate.
See Sacrifices at Aulis , Trojan War. She was also identified as the goddess of magic and witchcraft. The sorceress, Medea , was one of her high priestesses in her temple in Colchis.
In the war against the Giants , she killed Clytius with her torch see also the War of the Giants. According to the Sicilian historian, Diodorus Siculus, in his account about Jason and the Argonauts , Hecate was not a goddess, but a Taurian sorceress, daughter of Perses, king of Tauric Chersonese, and grand daughter of Helius.
Hecate was known for her cruelty, and she had poisoned her father and married her uncle, Aeetes, king of Colchis. Hecate became the mother of Circe and Medea. As a high priestess of the Taurian Artemis, she advocated the sacrifices of all strangers who come to Colchis. Iphigeneia, Iphigenia? War of the Giants. According to one writer, Styx was said to be the mother of Persephone , by Zeus. But more commonly Persephone was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. When the younger gods fought against the Titans, Styx sends her own children to aid Zeus.
For this aid, Styx became honoured by the Olympians, that an oaths sworn by the gods in her name was the most inviolable of all oaths. Iasion was the son of Zeus and the Pleiad Electra , which make Iasion the brother of Dardanus , ancestor of the Trojan people. Iasion was farmer from the island of Samothrace, whom Demeter had fallen in love with. Iasion made love to the goddess on a thrice-plowed field. Zeus killed his own son for sleeping with the goddess, but Demeter had already fallen pregnant.
Demeter gave birth to Plutus. Plutus was usually seen in art, together with Demeter and Persephone , as a boy holding in his hand, either a cornucopia or stalks of grains. According to one source, Plutus was the son of Hades and Persephone. Plutus was worshipped as one of the deities in the Eleusinian Mysteries. Originally, he was god of wealth, but it meant the wealth or abundance of crops or grains. Later the wealth also means precious metals and stones. To prevent Plutus from bestowing wealth to one person or another as he choose, Zeus blinded the young god, so that he would give wealth to a person, no matter if the person was good or wicked.
Mors Roman. Heracles , Admetus , Alcestis , Sarpedon , Patroclus. Hypnos was the son of Nyx. Hypnos was the father of Morpheus , the god of dreams. Hypnos dwelled in a cave beside the Lethe river. At Troy, according to the Iliad , Zeus was helping the Trojans.
Hera hated the Trojans, and was angry when she could not help the Greeks. Hera devised a plan to turn the tide against the Trojans. Hera asked Hypnos to make Zeus fall to sleep. Hypnos was very reluctant to aid Hera, because he done this all before. When Zeus woke and found out what had happened to his son, the enraged ruler of Olympus would have destroyed Hypnos.
The terrified god of sleep fled to his mother Nyx Night , where he sought protection against Zeus. The only deity that Zeus truly feared was Nyx. Hera bribed Hypnos with the promise of allowing the god of sleep to marry the Grace Pasithea. The tide immediately changed in favour of the Greeks, and Hector was almost killed by Ajax in the fighting.
Somnus Roman. Related Articles See also Somnus. Sarpedon , Patroclus. In the Roman myths, he was only just one of the gods of dreams, known as the Oneiroi Dreams. Morpheus could change his appearance to look like any mortal, while Icelos could take on the form of any animal. And Phantasos could only change into any form of nature, such as the earth, rocks, trees or water.
Ceyx had drowned when his ship sank in the storm. Alycone went to the shore and threw herself into the sea, where she perished. Alycone and Ceyx were transformed into kingfishers. See Ceyx and Alycone. Icelos, Phobetor. Related Articles Hypnos , Ceyx , Alycone. Charon required only fare of one coin obol from each shade, to ferry the dead across. It was Greek custom to put a coin in the dead, before burial. Normally Charon would allow the livings to cross. Heracles got away from paying Charon, by threatening the ferryman.
Orpheus had also got a free ride, because of his enchanting music and voice. The Erinyes seemed to reside in the Underworld, the World of the Dead.
It was Erinyes who brought condemned souls to Tartarus for their punishment, after the judgement of Themis. One of their more famous victims was Orestes. When Orestes murdered his own mother, Clytemnestra, the Erinyes persecuted him for many years, inflicting him with madness. To avenge his father, Orestes faced persecution and madness from the Erinyes. Which ever choice Orestes made he would be haunted by the Erinyes. Similarly, Alcmeon had killed his mother and was driven mad by the Erinyes.
When Athena and the Athenian jury acquitted Orestes, Athenians appeased the Erinyes, by offering to build a temple to them within their city. Related Articles Uranus , Athena , Orestes. Aeacus was king of the island of Aegina, where he was known for his piety and wisdom. It was this wisdom and piety that earned him immortality and become one of the three judges of the underworld. Rhadamanthys was known as the lawgiver in Crete, because of his wisdom and justice.
For this reason, he was given immortality as a judge in the Underworld. It was said that Rhadamanthys became the ruler of the Elysium. Minos, like his brother Rhadamanthys, was the son of Zeus and Europa. Rhadamanthys was chosen because of his love law and justice, while Aeacus was a very pious man. Minos, on the other hand, did not possess any of the qualities of the other two judges.
Minos was the most powerful ruler of the time. He was an arrogant ruler of Crete, who had offended Poseidon, the powerful god of the sea. See Minos in Minoan Crete. Related Information. Contact us. House of Hades. Below, there are descriptions of the Underworld and the deities who dwelled in this realm.
Almost all mortals would reside in the netherworld, after their death. Few gained godhood and fewer still gained places in the Olympus, the home of the Olympian gods and goddesses.
Those mortals, who were lucky to be favoured by the gods, will dwell in the Elysium , or Elysian Fields , were indeed blessed. The majority of the shades of the departed go to Plain of Asphodel.
Tartarus Tartarus was the deepest region of the Underworld that it was said that it took nine days and nine nights for an anvil to fall from the earth surface to the very bottom of Tartarus. Tartarus was the area where the Zeus and the Olympians had confined Cronus and the other male Titans. Chaos , Gaea , Eros , Hades , Zeus. Sisyphus , Ixion , Danaus , daughters of Danaus. Titans , Creation. Looking for someone or something in particular? Search for:.
Follow us on: Facebook Twitter Contact us. The world of the dead or the netherworld was commonly viewed, by the ancient religions, to be a subterranean realm, ruled by a god or goddess, or both.
Nyx , Gaea , Tartarus Erebus. Elysian Fields, Elysium. Tartarus was the deepest region of the Underworld that it was said that it took nine days and nine nights for an anvil to fall from the earth surface to the very bottom of Tartarus. The deification of the feminine, mother earth, and masculine, god of the sky, is basic to mythological and religious thinking. Deities of Waters. He is the father of the many spirits of waters rivers, springs, etc.
Gods of the Sun. The sun-god dwells in the East, crosses the dome of the sky in his chariot drawn by a team of four horses, descends in the West into the stream of Oceanus, which encircles the earth, and then sails back to the East to begin a new day. The Son of a Sun-God. This tale illustrates the brave folly of youth, the conflict between parents and their children, and the search for identity. Goddesses of the Moon. In the end, Endymion was granted perpetual sleep and eternal youth.
Goddess of the Dawn. She, like Selene, drives a two-horse chariot. The supreme god Zeus granted her prayer that Tithonus be made immortal and live forever. Poor Eos forgot to ask for eternal youth for her beloved. According to the Roman author Hyginus, Erebus was also the father of Geras , the god of old age. This place was also sometimes called Tartarus.
Tartarus was the place where Zeus sent the Titans after he defeated them. The Underworld was important to the ancient Greeks because it was a place where the spirits or souls of the dead were cared for. It was seen as a place that could be visited by Heroes such as Hercules.
The dead spirits kept their earthly shapes and could speak for themselves. The Underworld was generally invisible to the living. Erebus was credited with finishing the Underworld after the gods created Earth. He did this by filling in the empty places with dark mists. In ancient Greek and Roman mythology, Hemera is sometimes confused with both the goddesses Hera and Eos. In some stories, Erebus, Nyx, and Hemera are referred to as spirits rather than gods.
Erebus should not be confused with Hades, the brother of Zeus and Poseidon. Hades inherited the third realm when the world was divided into kingdoms by the three brothers.
He was the god who presided over funerals. Hades was also the god of the earth, the fertile fields, mining, and metals such as silver and gold. Erebus and Hades differ in that Erebus is more often referred to in the old stories as a spirit whereas Hades had more human characteristics.
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