What Are Hades Misunderstood God

Dereck Garcia
Miss Windish
English II
3 December 2017

Hades, the God of the Underworld Hades, lord of the underworld, God of Wealth, brother of Hades and Zeus, the slightly misunderstood god. My claim is that Hades wasn’t entirely bad, he helped fight tyrannical titans, never did judge the dead, and fell in love a couple of times. Before the beginning of mankind, Zeus, before Poseidon, and Hades were born, there was titans who ruled the cosmos in a tyrannical way, their leader was Cronus, father time. Hades and Poseidon were devoured by Cronus when he was born, but then Zeus convinced Cronus to regurgitate him, and after that he asked Hades for help to fight the titans, Hades agreed. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades fought all the titans until they fought Cronus. After his defeat they shoved Cronus down a hole that lead to Tartarus and Tartarus would be considered the place of eternal suffering. After the defeat of Cronus and shoving down the hole of Tartarus, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades decided that all three of them would rule one domain, The Underworld, The Seas, and The skies. Zeus became the ruler of the skies, Hades the underworld, and Poseidon the seas.
After you die, you went to the underworld to get judged on whether you go to Tartarus and spent time with Cronus and have eternal suffering, or go to an island where you spend time having fun and stuff.
It was most commonly thought that Hades chose your fate and that you had higher chances of going to Tartarus instead of that island of goodness, but he never judged the dead, he had three other people judge them for him. “RHADAMANTHYS, MINOS and AIAKOS (Aeacus) were the judges of the dead, three demi-god ministers of Haides. They were originally mortal men, sons of the god Zeus, who were granted their station in death as a reward for establishing law and order on earth.” (“Judges of the Dead,” 2010) Hades never cared to judge the dead, and he sometimes felt guilty doing
so. Hades, the god of death, the lord of the underworld, the misunderstood lover… Hades did fall in love, he wasn't some hell-bent guy who wanted to take over the world. Hades fell in love a couple of times in fact, he fell in love with Persephone, Minthe, and Leuce. He fell in love with Minthe. Minthe tried to seduce Hades, but then Persephone stepped in and metamorphosed her into a plant. Another lady he fell in love with was Leuce. After a while of living, like all things inevitable, Leuce died, but when she died, she turned into a white poplar. Hades mourned her death and kept the poplar in a hidden secret place so that no one can cut it down or harm it. It was sacred to him. Last but not least was Persephone. Hades saw Persephone and instantly fell in love. She didn’t want to become Hades’ wife, so she stayed in Mount Olympus, but Hades was determined. He left the underworld, went to Mount Olympus and kidnapped Persephone. Then later raped her, which was not all the good. Demeter wasn’t very happy with Hades in doing that, so she told Zeus that he better do something or she’s going to strike the world with a huge famine until she gets her daughter back. After Hades hearing this and getting concerned because then the Underworld would start becoming an overpopulated domain, he asked Zeus if there was a certain time of the year that Persephone would go visit the world and her mother. After a compromise, Persephone can leave the underworld for only 4 months, or one third a time of the year. Hades wasn’t entirely a bad, he helped fight tyrannical titans,never judged the dead, and fell in love a couple of times.