Pluto/Hades
deity underworld Greek single tradition · 1
Pluto/Hades is considered the Zeus [king of the gods] of the Heavens, Poseidon (Zeus of the seas) and Pluto/Hades (Zeus of the underworld). All were considered to be ultimately a monad; the same Zeus who gave rise to the Titanic demiurgic triad of Helios (the sun when in the sky), Apollo (the sun seen in the world of humankind), and Dionysus (god of mysteries, or the "sun" of the underworld), as in Plato's Phaedrus, concerning the myth of Dionysus and the Titans)
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Olympian demiurgic triad in platonic philosophy.
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Sources
wikipedia (1)
Source passages
“The Olympian demiurgic triad in platonic philosophy was made up of Zeus (considered the Zeus [king of the gods] of the Heavens), Poseidon (Zeus of the seas) and Pluto/Hades (Zeus of the underworld).”
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