Hades,
ancient ruler of the underworld and brother to Zeus and Poseidon. In Byz. literature Hades connotes both (1) the underworld, as an equivalent to Christian Hell, as well as more generally, in secular texts, the place where all the dead are, at least initially, congregated; and (2) the personification of Death as a symbol for the tyranny of human mortality. In hymns and homilies from the 4th–6th C. onward Hades (alongside ... ...
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