Hades In Greek Mythology, there are multiple gods. They all have strange twists to their story. One of these gods is Hades. Hades is important to Greek Mythology because he is the brother of Zeus and Poseidon, god of the underworld, and husband of Persephone (per-seh-fa-nee). Hades’ father, Cronus, was told of a prophecy that one day, a descendant of his will overthrow him as Cronus did to his own father. When Rhea gave birth to Hades on an island named Crete, Cronus remembered the prophecy and swallowed Hades to the pit of his stomach. As time went on, Rhea had given birth to four younger siblings of Hades ─ Poseidon, Demeter, Hera, Hestia, and finally, Zeus (greek-gods.info). When Zeus was born, Rhea had had enough of Cronus swallowing her children. Before Cronus swallowed Zeus, Rhea went to her mother for advice. Her mother gave her a potion and told her where to take Zeus until he was of age. Rhea went back to Cronus and instead of giving him her son, she wrapped a rock the size of a baby and gave that to him. Cronus was fooled and swallowed the rock, thinking it was Zeus. As time went on, Zeus grew into a young man. Rhea gave him the potion that her mother had given her and Zeus tricked Cronus into drinking it. This resulted in Hades and the rest of …show more content…
This is not true. The king of the dead is actually Thanatos. Hades is the most just of gods. He is only there to show the war of the souls that are there to cross. Hades punishes those who try to get out of the underworld and he rewards those who do good (greekgodsandgoddesses.net). Hades. like every god, has some weakness. He is very impulsive when it comes to decisions. Hades’ main weakness is his passion for his wife, Persephone (per-seh-fa-nee). His strengths is that he is very determined when it comes to things he wants. He is also very persistent. Hades’ main strength was that he was rich of the Earth