The earliest attested form is Aḯdēs ( Ἀΐδης), which lacks the proposed digamma. Modern linguists have proposed the Proto-Greek form * Awides ('unseen'). An extensive section of Plato's dialogue Cratylus is devoted to the etymology of the god's name, in which Socrates is arguing for a folk etymology not from 'unseen' but from 'his knowledge ( eidenai) of all noble things'. The origin of Hades' name is uncertain but has generally been seen as meaning 'the unseen one' since antiquity. Ploútōn), itself a euphemistic title often given to Hades. The Etruscan god Aita and the Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to Hades and merged into Pluto, a Latinisation of Plouton ( Greek: Πλούτων, translit. In artistic depictions, Hades is typically portrayed holding a bident and wearing his helm with Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the underworld, standing to his side. Hades received the underworld, Zeus the sky, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth, long the province of Gaia, available to all three concurrently. He and his brothers, Zeus and Poseidon, defeated their father's generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed rulership over the cosmos.

Hades was the eldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although this also made him the last son to be regurgitated by his father. Háidēs Ἅιδης, Háidēs), in the ancient Greek religion and myth, is the god of the dead and the king of the underworld, with which his name became synonymous. You can visit him at ( / ˈ h eɪ d iː z/ Greek: ᾍδης, translit. George is also the creator of popular picture books such as the New York Times–bestselling Kapow! and If I Had a Triceratops. Newman on Unrig: How to Fix Our Broken Democracy, the first volume in the World Citizen Comics series. He also illustrated acclaimed playwright Adam Rapp’s Ball Peen Hammer. His first graphic novel, Journey into Mohawk Country, pushed the boundaries of the genre, using as its sole text the actual historical journal of the seventeenth-century Dutch trader Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert. George O'Connor is the New York Times–bestselling author of Olympians, the series of graphic novels featuring the tragic, dramatic, and epic lives of the Greek Gods.

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