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IHades is the lord of the dead and ruler of the nether world, which is referred to as the domain of Hades or, by transference, as Hades alone. He is the son of [|Cronus] and [|Rhea]. When the three sons of Cronus divided the world among each other, Hades was given the underworld, while his brothers [|Zeus] and [|Poseidon] took the upperworld and the sea respectively. For a while Hades ruled the underworld together with [|Persephone], whom he had abducted from the upperworld, but Zeus ordered him to release Persephone back into the care of her mother [|Demeter]. However, before she left he gave her a pomegranate and when she ate of it, it bound her to the underworld forever. Hades is often interpreted as the grim reaper, even though he was not.



This is zeus hades brother zeus is the king of all god and ruler of mount olympus. His symbols are the [|thunderbolt], [|eagle], [|bull], and [|oak]. In addition to his Indo-European inheritance, the classical "cloud-gatherer" also derives certain iconographic traits from the cultures of the [|ancient Near East], such as the [|scepter]. Zeus is frequently depicted by Greek artists in one of two poses: standing, striding forward, with a thunderbolt leveled in his raised right hand, or seated in majesty.



This is **Poseidon** the god of the [|sea] and, as "Earth-Shaker," of [|earthquakes]. The name of the sea-god [|Nethuns] in [|Etruscan] was adopted in Latin for [|Neptune] in [|Roman mythology]: both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon. [|Linear B] tablets show that Poseidon was venerated at [|Pylos] and [|Thebes] in pre-Olympian [|Bronze Age Greece], but he was integrated into the [|Olympian gods] as the brother of [|Zeus] and [|Hades]. Poseidon has many children. There is a [|Homeric hymn] to Poseidon, who was the protector of many Hellenic cities, although he lost the contest for [|Athens] to [|Athena].



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