Like Zeus, he had numerous affairs with goddesses, nymphs, and mortal women. Hades was a glowering, humorless Greek god. Not an Olympian, he ruled the underworld where all mortals went upon death.

Greek god and goddess vector illustration series, Hades, the god of the dead and the king of the underworld Charon, the ferryman controls his boat with the dead on board In Greek and Roman mythology, ...

The story of how Hades kidnapped Persephone, goddess of spring, is one of the most oft-told stories from Greek mythology.

The structure was a sacred site dedicated to Pluto, the Greek god of the underworld, also known as Hades. The shrine was considered a portal from which flowed the toxic breath of Cerberus ...