Hades In Ancient Greek Mythology

Ancient Greek created many myths because they couldn’t explain some of the things that happened to them or around them. Mythology was part of Greek civilization and they used to use it as their religion or other reasons. Ancient Greek mythology is one of the oldest myths we have and goes back thousands of years ago. I decided to choose the mythology of Hades but the myth doesn’t tell us much valuable historical information because Hades was the ruler of the underworld and ruler of the dead. Hade personally fit him well in the underworld as he was “Most feared of the Gods, he is described by Homer and Hesiod as pitiless, loathsome and monstrous Hades” (by Cartwright, Mark. "Hades." Ancient History Encyclopedia). Some information on Hades is
that he is brothers with Zeus and four other siblings. Cronus was there father and did not want to get overthrown by his children so he swallowed all of them except Zeus.
Zeus was the only child that Cronos did not swallow because their mom Rhea prevented Zeus from being swallowed. Zeus brought his siblings back to life and they all overthrown there father and the titans. The war ended when Cronos died and then they locked the titans away. The siblings drew lots for the division of the cosmos. Hades won being ruler of the underworld. In today’s world some religion still use the underworld theory and that’s where the evil people go, it is very similar to the mythology that Greeks used. It’s not scientifically proven and it’s based on peoples beliefs, therefore it’s just a myth that Greeks used to live by to explain the way of life. The ancient Greeks made up mythology of the Olympian Gods so they could have a better way of living life like in most religions today. The limitations to using this particular myth as a source of historical information is that the ancient Greeks used to tell these mythology by mouth and then later they started to write it down. We also don’t know who created these myths and therefore we can’t rely on it for historical information. The Greek used this for religions,
educational purposes and also entertainment. The mythology of Hades tell us about the way of life the Greek lived and about the society that told the myth. The mythology of Hades tells me they believed that when they died they would be sent to the underworld. Hades is the god of the dead so every mortal would be sent to Hades. The underworld is a horrible place and your life would be judge by three judges in the underworld. There is three areas in the underworld and if you are bad you get sent to Tartarus where you would suffer eternally like it says on the article that “It was a place far beneath the underworld, where the Titans were imprisoned” ( by http://www.greek-gods.org). The other area is Asphodel Meadows where you fell in between the lines of good and bad and you just live okay in the underworld. Then if you were a good person you would get sent to Elysian where you would live in eternal happiness. This tells me that they were civilized people that had rules and consequences they lived by. Their culture is not too different from our culture today, we both believed in religion and both our society’s had rules to obey. The ancient Greek were very intelligent people with strong beliefs in their religion. The mythology they live by tell us a lot about how there society was. One of the characters Hades the ruler of the underworld really entertained me and I learned a lot about their beliefs. Their beliefs is not so different then our beliefs in today world and we can compare a lot of myths that we use to the Greeks. Myths are used by everyone even in today’s world, served the function of passing on history and knowledge from previous generation. The Greek were very intelligent people for not having much technology like we do in today’s world.