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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 1 February 2025. This is a list of notable offspring of a deity with a mortal, in mythology and modern fiction. Such entities are sometimes referred to as demigods, although the term "demigod" can also refer to a minor deity, or great mortal hero with god-like valour and skills, who sometimes attains ...
Pages in category "Children of Hades" ... Erinyes; M. Macaria (daughter of Hades) Z. Zagreus This page was last edited on 17 August 2024, at 20:59 ...
Key: The names of the generally accepted Olympians [11] are given in bold font.. Key: The names of groups of gods or other mythological beings are given in italic font. Key: The names of the Titans have a green background.
Hades and Cerberus, in Meyers Konversationslexikon, 1888. Hades, as the god of the dead, was a fearsome figure to those still living; in no hurry to meet him, they were reluctant to swear oaths in his name, and averted their faces when sacrificing to him. Since to many, simply to say the word "Hades" was frightening, euphemisms were pressed ...
Macaria or Makaria (Ancient Greek: Μακαρία, romanized: Makaría, lit. 'blessed one, blessedness' [1]) is the name of two figures from ancient Greek religion and mythology:
This Macaria is attested in a single source, the 10th-century Byzantine encyclopedia Suda, according to which she is a daughter of Hades, the king of the Underworld; [3] no mother is mentioned. Nothing else is known about her, as she is neither explicitly stated to be an immortal goddess nor a mortal woman, nor confirmed to live in the ...
Category: Children by Greek deity. 10 languages. ... Children of Hades (1 C, 3 P) Children of Helios (3 C, 53 P) Children of Hephaestus (12 P) Children of Hera (4 C ...
Both made similar journeys into Hades, and Dionysus-Zagreus suffered an identical death. [72] Pausanias writes that Orpheus was buried in Dion and that he met his death there. [73] He writes that the river Helicon sank underground when the women that killed Orpheus tried to wash off their blood-stained hands in its waters. [74]