Hades, an Influence on Greek Society

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Who fortunately saved him from being ate by his notable father ,Cronus. He was saved when Rhea,” the mother of all gods”, had deceived Cronus into eating a rock instead of eating another one of his offspring (“Rhea”) .Similar to what Cronus he did to Hestia , Pluto , Hera and Demeter. Which at that time would have been the newborn, Zeus. When he ate the stone he resulted by throwing up all the children. Leading to the overthrow of the great ruler known as Cronus ("The myths of Poseidon, God of the sea"), the battle of Titanomony.

He killed his father by allowing Cronus to swallow him, while he had a potion that would cause Cronus to throw up his brothers Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Demeter, and Hestia. Alongside his brothers, Zeus fought and become the supreme ruler of gods, he then rewarded his brothers by making Poseidon the God of the Seas. Poseidon was the god of sea, storms, earthquake and horses. He was also considered one of the most greedy, bad-tempered and moody amongst the gods. Zeus also rewarded Hades, by making him the God of the Underworld, also known as the world of dead.

Aristophanes also defiantly misrepresents an icon like Socrates as comical, atheistic, and consumed by ideas of self interest, which is contradictory to the Socrates seen in Plato's Apology or Phaedo. Aristophanes denounces the importance of the gods' influence on the actions of mortals. In the usual tragedy, the gods play an extremely important role towards the actions of the mortal characters. Through fear of the alternative and examples of the past, Athenians carried out their everyday lives under the guidance of the gods' wishes. Aristophanes challenges the audience, and Greek culture as a whole, by offering a different view on the answers and directions of life, than that of the gods.

As a result of this terrible destruction of a man’s life and his family, the reader would consider the gods guilty and evil. The gods followed four steps to destroy Oedipus completely. First, they controlled his fate and led him to murder his father, and marry his mother. They provided people with the power of prophecy to make Laius and Jocasta give away their child. Not only that, but Apollo’s oracle told Oedipus about his terrible fate that involve his parents to make him move to Thebes.

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From Uranus’ blood, Giants and Nymphs were created and from the ocean foam, where his genitalia, fell came Aphrodite (goddess of love). Reign of Titans After the fall of Cronus, the rule of the titans began. He chose Rhea, his sister, to be his wife and together had many children. But due to the prophesy that Uranus spoke of, Cronus ate all of his children so that none would overthrow him as he did to his own father. Rhea grew angry of this and hid the youngest son, Zeus, from him.

The era of the Greek gods began when Cronos ate his children, so that they would not defeat and kill him as Cronos’s father had done. Nevertheless, his fate was inevitable. Zeus, who Rheu hid from Cronos, grew old and strong enough to defeat his father and banish him to the depths of the underworld. The myths of the times of the gods began with murder and deception. This is the message that readers get out of mythology.