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Hades cultural definition

The Greek and Roman god of the underworld and the ruler of the dead. Also called Dis. The underworld itself was also known to the Greeks as Hades.

  • The Greek and Roman underworld later became associated with the hell of Christianity, as in the expression “hot as Hades.”

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