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Hades

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Hades
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The source names Hades and directs prayers to him but does not explicitly call him a god in this book.

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

5
·Reported

Hades shares the underworld house to which Ulysses must journey with dread Proserpine.

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“house of Hades and of dread Proserpine”
·Hypothetical

Hades is to receive prayers and the burnt sacrifice of the two sheep.

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“burnt sacrifice with prayers to Hades and to Proserpine”
·Remembered

Hades receives prayers while the sheep carcasses are flayed and burnt.

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“repeat prayers to Hades and to Proserpine”
·Remembered

Ulysses recalls descending into Hades to consult Teiresias about his and his companions’ return.

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“the shade of Teiresias prophesied concerning me, on the day when I went down into Hades to ask about my return and that of my companions”
·Remembered

Hades is remembered as a chill house to which Ulysses sails to consult Teiresias’s ghost.

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“sailed to the chill house of Hades, to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

5
·Reported
“the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine”
·Remembered
“prayers to Hades”
·Disguised
“the house of Hades”
·Reported
“the house of Hades”
·Remembered
“when I went down into Hades”

Passage preview

Book 10 · Passage 41

‘And the goddess answered, ‘Ulysses, noble son of Laertes, you shall none of you stay here any longer if you do not want to, but there is another journey which you have got to take before you can sail homewards. You must go to the house of Hades and of dread Proserpine to consult the ghost of the blind Theban prophet Teiresias, whose reason is still unshaken. To him alone has Proserpine left his understanding even in death, but the other ghosts flit about aimlessly.’