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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:04 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 9:56 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 10:46 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:38 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:52 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:52 pm
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2011 7:53 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:43 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 12:33 pm
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:24 am
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Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:37 am
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Posted: Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:18 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:10 pm
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Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 4:42 pm
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Well, I don't know, I think we're possibly being a little too sympathetic here.
It is true, Hades was not evil, inasmuch as any of the gods were. He was a just god and the ruler of paradise as well as perdition. Morally, one would have to designate him as 'neutral'.
He was, however, a fearsome, stern, unforgiving and greedy king, who hoarded the dead like treasure and had not an ounce of pity in his heart. He was the abductor of his own neice to be his wife, and as his brothers were prone to do, he cheated on her with the nymph Minthe (although Persephone isn't blameless either; see Adonis).
The ancient Greeks were terrified of Hades. His very name meant 'the unseen' and the large number of epithets used to describe him (Polydegmon, he who recieves many) all indicate that speaking of him was generally to be avoided. He had no temples, and prayers to him were made while bashing one's head against the earth. As far as the Hellenes were concerned, to invoke the attention of Hades was to invite death into their lives.
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