Hades

Olympian-born lord of the dead, master of the helm of darkness.

Parentage

• Cronus
• Rhea

Domains

• underworld

Powers

• Reigns over the dead and bars their return
• Becomes wholly unseen wearing his cap of darkness

Epithets

• Πλούτων
• Κλυμένος
• Πολυδέγμων
• Εὐβουλεύς
• Ἀϊδωνεύς
• Ζεὺς καταχθόνιος

Relations

• sibling: Hestia

Sources

• Hesiod, Theogony 455; Homer, Iliad 15.187