The Roman name for Hades is Pluto. His epithet is “Lord of many guests.” Hades domain is the underworld, which is also known as Hades. Zeus and Poseidon are Hades younger brothers, and the three of them work together to kill their father Kronos. When the world was divided up, Hades was given control of the underworld. A major trait of Hades is his greed. Everything that lives will die and trickle down to him, and he hates when souls try to leave the underworld. He doesn’t like the other gods and prefers to be alone, so he enjoys the underworld. Hades wife is Persephone. He abducted her and tricked her into eating the pomegranate seeds, so now she must spend part of the year in the underworld with him. The separation between the world of the
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Orpheus’s wife Eurydice died. He was determined to get his wife back, so he traveled to the underworld to ask Hades to release her. He agreed, but only if Orpheus walks in front of his wife and does not look at her until they leave the underworld. Hades tricks Orpheus and gets him to turn around before they leave the underworld, causing his wife to vanish. The story of Sisyphus is about a man who goes awol to avenge his death. One version of the myth is that Zeus ordered Hades to chain Sisyphus in Tartarus. Sisyphus was called one of the craftiest men alive, and asked Hades to show him how the chains worked. While he was doing this, Sisyphus traps him. Hades is eventually released, and decides that his punishment will be to push a massive boulder up a hill, and watch it roll back down again, over and over for all eternity. Albert Camus was a French existentialist who believed that there is no meaning in life, that we have to make our own meaning or just give up and die. In his book “The Myth of Sisyphus”, written in 1942, he compares mankind to Sisyphus. If Sisyphus can keep pushing, accepting that it is pointless, and that he can’t escape, and still be content, then we can keep pushing through life, accepting that it is pointless and be content with our lives. If we can imagine that Sisyphus is happy, we too can be …show more content…
Matthew 22:31-32 says “But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” This verse is saying that the dead are not dead at all and their souls are still alive. It also says God is the God of the living, not the dead. God tells us that death itself will die in Revelations 20:14 “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” The God of the Bible has control over death and will destroy it in the end, but the Greeks believed Hades was in control once you die and death will always win. Again in 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 God’s victory over death is shown. “When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’ ‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your
Orpheus’s wife Eurydice died. He was determined to get his wife back, so he traveled to the underworld to ask Hades to release her. He agreed, but only if Orpheus walks in front of his wife and does not look at her until they leave the underworld. Hades tricks Orpheus and gets him to turn around before they leave the underworld, causing his wife to vanish. The story of Sisyphus is about a man who goes awol to avenge his death. One version of the myth is that Zeus ordered Hades to chain Sisyphus in Tartarus. Sisyphus was called one of the craftiest men alive, and asked Hades to show him how the chains worked. While he was doing this, Sisyphus traps him. Hades is eventually released, and decides that his punishment will be to push a massive boulder up a hill, and watch it roll back down again, over and over for all eternity. Albert Camus was a French existentialist who believed that there is no meaning in life, that we have to make our own meaning or just give up and die. In his book “The Myth of Sisyphus”, written in 1942, he compares mankind to Sisyphus. If Sisyphus can keep pushing, accepting that it is pointless, and that he can’t escape, and still be content, then we can keep pushing through life, accepting that it is pointless and be content with our lives. If we can imagine that Sisyphus is happy, we too can be …show more content…
Matthew 22:31-32 says “But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. He is not the God of the dead but of the living.” This verse is saying that the dead are not dead at all and their souls are still alive. It also says God is the God of the living, not the dead. God tells us that death itself will die in Revelations 20:14 “And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.” The God of the Bible has control over death and will destroy it in the end, but the Greeks believed Hades was in control once you die and death will always win. Again in 1 Corinthians 15:54-55 God’s victory over death is shown. “When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory.’ ‘Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your