HADES

(Gr. iS»!c; also a.l'Sv?, which is said to be derived from » and »<5ai, I see; invisible.) In Cla ical Mythology, the abode of the dead. According to Hesiod the mortals of the brazen age were the first who descended to Hades. (See especially the 11th book of the Ody ey; Hesiod, Ecym xxi ' H/x-iPxi; JEncid, bookvi.; War burton's Di ertation on the latter; Heyne, Excursus 8. ad loc.; Spence's Poly met is. Dial. 16.) Hades was also an appellation of the god Pluto; in which sense alone, it is said, Hesiod uses it. [s. 551]