![]() The famine threatened humankind and so, after some god-to-god bargaining - after all, the gods couldn't let humans die off who would praise them? - the brothers Zeus and Hades agreed that Persephone could leave the underworld every year to be with her mother. The kidnapping did not go over well with Demeter, the goddess of grain and agriculture, who so mourned the loss of her daughter that she neglected her duties, bringing a great famine to the land. He seized her against her will, put her on his golden chariot, and drove away as she wept. He was riding on a chariot drawn by immortal horses. There it was that the Lord who receives many guests made his lunge. So there's no sense in the ancient stuff, that I know, that he's somehow lost out and he's angry or something." "He was presented in this poem, " The Hymn to Demeter," as being a good catch, because he's rich and he's related to Zeus. He's the one who can kind of control what comes out of the earth. "The fact that he's connected also with Persephone, who's connected with fertility and crops, gives you the impression that he's got a pretty good deal. Martin, a professor of classics at Stanford University and the author of " Classic Mythology: The Basics" and several other books and articles on Greek, Latin and Irish literature. "He has this other name - Pluto - which means 'the rich one,'" explains Richard P. In fact, people ended up naming the underworld after him. ![]() Poseidon assumed control of the seas.Īnd Hades ended up with a mixed bag, ruling over both the dead and everything under the earth, including seeds, grains, gold and silver. Afterward, these new gods - the Olympians - split up the cosmos: Zeus, god of sky and the heavens (among other cool gigs), became king of the gods. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, earned that status by knocking off the old-guard gods, the Titans, in a 10-year war known as the Titanomachy. Still, Hades was a god and therefore commanded some respect from the Greeks. ![]()
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