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BY CELIA CARRANZAAND LARA SÁNCHEZ.1º ESO 2012-13.IES FRAY PEDRO DEURBINA

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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 hiskingdom and faced him, but Hades waswounded by an arrow in the shoulder and thegod had to be taken quickly to Olympus, wherePeon ("god of heal") applied a miraculous balmand the wound healed quickly.

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The reason for his name• For many people, simplyto say his name wasterrible, so they usedeuphemisms.Precious minerals camefrom the depths of theEarth (the underworldgoverned by Hades), itwas considered that hadcontrol of minerals. So itwas called: `` ΠλουτωνPlouton (related towealth).

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FAMILY• Hades was the son of TitanCronos, god of time, andRhea, the goddess of theearth.• His brothers were:Poseidon, god of the sea,and Zeus, the god of gods,sky and thunder.

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Kingdom of Hades• His kingdom was that ofthe dead. In Greekmythology it was theentrance to theunderworld, located atAvernus (a crater nearCumae).

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History of the Underworld• For the Hellenes, the dead entered the underworld bycrossing the Acheron River, pointed by Charon. Theyhad to pay an obolus (small coin to be put in themouth of the deceased). The poor without family andfriends were meeting for a hundred years on near thebank of the river.• The Greeks offered the possibility for the deceased toreturn to the upper world to pursue those who had notgiven a proper funeral. The other side of the river wasguarded by Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hades.

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Cerberus and Charon (Caronte)