Pausanias' Description of Greece

Hades

Role: deity · First appears: Book 8 · Chapter 18

Book 8 · Chapter 18

  • with Hercules (Hercules was sent to Hades to bring back Cerberus.) “For could I have foreseen what since has chanced, When he was sent to Hades jailor dread To bring from Erebus dread Hades’ Cerberus, He would not have escaped the streams of Styx.”

Book 8 · Chapter 32

  • with Hermes (Hermes conveys the souls of the departed to Hades.) “conveys the souls of the departed to Hades”

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