Why Are Hades Better Than You Think

Hades: Better than you think
Most of the time, when prompted to think about Hades, you’d think of a god that’s so related to the dead that he’d be evil to every extreme. Death, destruction, malevolence, and suffering right? All sorts of evil for the god of the dead and ruler of the underworld. However, what if I told you that Hades wasn’t evil, he was actually better than he’s made out to be? Hades is actually not as bad as he’s thought to be because of his role, his personality, and his location. It’s good to start simple, so let’s look at him at face value, his role. Hades’ role is important because it defines his job as a god and what he’s supposed to represent, so it defines how people look at him. Hades’ role is being god of the underworld and the dead, but he’s also god of riches, as in the riches that come from the
He’s got several different beings that he works with to keep the underworld running in a sense. There’s Charon, the ferryman bringing the souls across the river styx to the underworld, there’s the furies, who are responsible for torturing the guilty souls, also cerberus, the three (or fifty, depending on the source) headed dog with snakes coming from its body that kept souls within the underworld and the judges of the souls (Minos, Aiakos, and Rhadamantus) who were responsible for determining fairly if a soul had lived a just life and where they would reside. All of these beings are required to run the underworld, and it’s a lot of work. It shows that the underworld is something that Hades has to take care of, that he’s actually responsible for something. In fact, Hades is also responsible for keeping the gates of the lower world closed so that no shade would escape to the realm of light. He isn’t forced to by any means, he just decides to. He could let utter chaos happen, but he doesn’t. However, another important aspect of Hades is his