Aidoneus

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Aidoneus is an alternate name and epithet for Hades, the Greek god who rules the underworld and the dead.

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Label Occurrences
Aidoneus canonical 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek god
chthonic deity
underworld deity
abode palace in the realm of the dead
the underworld
alternateNameOf Hades
appearsIn Hymn to Demeter
surface form: Homeric Hymn to Demeter

works of later Greek and Roman authors as a name for Hades
associatedWith funerary rites
riches
the afterlife
the dead
the helm of invisibility
brother Demeter
Hera
Hestia
Poseidon
Zeus
category Greek underworld gods
Olympian gods
children of Cronus and Rhea
childOf Cronus
Rhea
epithetOf Hades
greekName Ἀϊδωνεύς (Aidoneus)
hasConsort Persephone
hasDomain underworld
knownFor abducting Persephone
being lord of the dead
memberOf Twelve Olympians
mythologicalTradition Greek mythology
notSameAs Charon
Thanatos
parent none (childless in most traditions)
romanEquivalent Dis Pater
Pluto
rulesOver the dead
rulesRealm Hades
surface form: Hades (the underworld)
spouse Persephone
symbol black animals
cornucopia
keys of the underworld
scepter
wields helm of invisibility
worshippedIn Greek Antiquity
surface form: ancient Greece

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Hades epithet Aidoneus
Pluto (Roman god of the underworld) equivalentTo Aidoneus
subject surface form: Pluto
ᾍδης epithet Aidoneus