Hades, God of the Underworld, ruled over Elysium, The Asphodel Meadows, Tartarus, & The Fields of Morning, the places souls were sent when they passed onto The Realm of the Dead. No one would be able to escape Hades’ judgment, with Sisyphus, Ixion, Ocnus, Tantalus & The Danaides undergoing some of his most renowned punishments.
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To enter the Underworld, however, souls would first have to pay Charon’s Obol, with those who did not have a coin placed under their tongue when buried, left to wander the shores of the River Styx for 100 years before they were allowed to cross. From Orpheus and Persephone to the Three Judges and Cerberus, this is the story of Hades and the Underworld.
📽 Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Hades 0:12
Gods vs The Titans 1:06
Lord of the Dead 2:41
The Underworld 3:33
Tartarus 6:35
The Furies 10:41
The Fields of Mourning 11:23
The Land of Dreams 12:07
Persephone 13:22
Orpheus and Eurydice 15:48
📚 Sources:
Classical Mythology, by Mark Morford, Robert Lenardon and Michael Sham
Greek Mythology, by Katerina Servi
Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, by Edith Hamilton
Apollodorus – The Library of Greek Mythology, translated by Robin Hard
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📽 Timestamps:
Intro: 0:00
Hades 0:12
Gods vs The Titans 1:06
Lord of the Dead 2:41
The Underworld 3:33
Tartarus 6:35
The Furies 10:41
The Fields of Mourning 11:23
The Land of Dreams 12:07
Persephone 13:22
Orpheus and Eurydice 15:48
please do epic of Gilgamesh next
2:00 Man the guy on the bottom right made me spit out my tea xD
A segue worthy of the gods
HAD-ES=SET(h)-OS(god) . 😇
My favorite Greek god.. he is so misunderstood
Keep the Greek myths coming
Great 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Hades despite what we have seen in films wasn’t a bad evil God! He was well respected in ancient Hellas but sometimes his name was avoided as you said, trying to avoid to caught his attention!
He had a pitchfork although in some other stories he had a helmet that made him invisible but that isn’t much right because his name Άδης/ádis > Hades means the one that cannot he seen. He was invisible anyway!
A small detail
3:25 Romans calling him Pluto
Actually, Pluto was another Hellenic name for Hades! It’s not a Roman/Latin term!
Even though Romans renamed the Hellenic pantheon when they adopted our Gods, they kept some names like Apollo and Pluto.
In Hellenic Hades was called either:
Άδης / Ádis > Hades
Πλούτωνας / Plùtonas > Pluto
Πλούτος / plùtos means wealth in Hellenic!
Meaning that they knew about the precious metals and gems beneath the Earth.
5:08
The famous avenue Champs Élysées in Paris was named after the “paradise” of ancient Hellenic religion! The fields of Elysium
11:40
As most of the Roman myths and stories, they were based in Hellenic mythology or Historical facts!
The story of Vergilius about Dido and Aeneas was inspired by the fact that Dido was the daughter of the King Myttos and she was inherited the throne. She went to Northern Africa with her brother Pygmalion and they founded the city called
Καρχηδόνα / Karxidòna > Carthage
Vergilius used this fact and the stories of Homer and he wrote that Aeneas after living Troy he went to Carthage. Dido fell in love with him but Zeus ordered Aeneas to leave and found a city (later called Rome) and Aeneas abandoned her.
Aeneid, the most important epic poem of the Roman culture was inspired and influenced by the works of Homer and the Hellenic mythology. Romans claimed ancestry from the Hellene hero Aeneas and the foundation of Rome was a God’s will…
16:12
Orpheus and Eurydice
In Hellenic their names are
Ορφέας / orfèas
Ευρυδίκη/ Evridíki
Orpheus and Eurydice were from Thrace🇬🇷 Orpheus was the son of the Muse Kalliòpi> Calliope. He was the first musician in Hellenic mythology. Even Apollo the God of music liked his playing that he gave him his Lyra!
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Love your content. Wish there was more about real historical events as opposed to fiction.
Still love the videos.
When Hades endorses a vpn by a Norse god, you know it's good
Great video, the nord VPN transition fooled me for a second.
The Greek Myths I love. Thank you for this video ❤️🥰
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That's very sad
Great story telling and imaging great work …. The you tube gods are pleased with your work and you are destined for Elysium! 😂
It is coincidence that i am trying to quit playing the game Hades, then this video came up
I just watched the video on hercules and thought wow i never actually understood this guys story until you told it and thought man, i wonder if he's done one on hades yet and i look back at the channel to see 4 horus ago, a video released about hades and my mind got blown. keep doing videos like these please!!
I put these on to sleep but I have heard the start of all the videos quite often so I appreciate the new content. Cheers 🙂
Your intro feels like a refreshing breeze of fresh air
Can you make a video on Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses Please???