When is hades allowed on mount olympus

Hades was finally released during the final drinking competition that Kronos had with his Titanic brothers and nephews. Zeus poured powerful knockout potions for the other titans and an extremely powerful emetic made from nectar mixed with mustard into Kronos' goblet, which caused the Titan King to disgorge all of the contents inside his stomach, in reverse order of swallowing: first the boulder which Kronos had swallowed instead of Zeus , then Poseidon , followed by Hades, Hera , Demeter , and Hestia.

All five of them had been growing undigested in Kronos' stomach, being immortal gods. Zeus quickly introduced himself to his elder siblings, and all of them promptly escaped Mount Othrys , before their Titan uncles and cousins came to their senses. In Zeus' Cave, at the base of Mount Ida, Hades happily reunited with his beloved mother Rhea , who tearfully embraced him. Shortly thereafter, Hades and the other gods accepted Zeus as their leader, and reached a unanimous consensus on declaring war against their tyrannical father.

However, since the Titans were well-armed and the gods still had no weapons, Hades agreed to help Zeus release their Elder Cyclops and Hekatonkheire uncles from Tartarus first to help them against the Titans.

For some reason, Hades seemed quite happy at the prospect of venturing into the darkest and most horrifying realm of the universe. Hades was very skilled in navigating under the earth, and was able to lead his brothers and sisters straight into Tartarus through a complex network of Underworld tunnels. There, imprisoned in the maximum-security zone, surrounded by huge bronze walls and a lava moat guarded by fierce demons, were the Elder Cyclopes and Hekaonkheires.

However, the gods overcame their fear and were able to sneak in. Hades seemed particularly pleased with the Helm's power of generating intense and ineffable terror. Indeed, the Helm's terrifying aura was powerful enough for Hades to scare even Zeus and Poseidon simultaneously, to the point that both of them paled and started to sweat with fear. Afterwards, Hades safely guided his siblings and uncles back out of Tartarus.

In return, for their release, all six of Hades' uncles agreed to fight on the gods' side in the upcoming war with the Titans. Shortly after their return from Tartarus , Hades and his siblings officially declared war on Kronos and the other Titans, which resulted in the grueling year-long Titanomachy. The Titans initially had the upper hand in their battles, since they were much more experienced warriors.

However, as the years of the War passed, the gods quickly became skilled and experienced warriors as well, and with the help of their new extremely powerful weapons which they mastered the use of, as well as the aid of the Elder Cyclopes and Hekatonkheires, the gods finally prevailed. Hades himself proved to be a very dangerous and ferocious warrior and greatly contributed to the ultimate downfall of Kronos and his allies. He was greatly feared among all of the Titans due to his terrifying Helm.

While preparing for the final battle of the War, Hades and his siblings ascended to Mount Olympus the tallest mountain in Greece after Mount Othrys. Shortly thereafter, the gods invaded the ruins of Mount Othrys, and finally overwhelmed the remaining Titans Atlas , Hyperion , Iapetus , Krios , and Koios. In the aftermath of the battle, the Elder Cyclopes chained up all of the defeated Titans, while the Hekatonkheires forced them to kneel before Hades, Zeus, and Poseidon.

Zeus took his father's Scythe, and sliced Kronos into a thousand pieces, before casting him into Tartarus, along with the rest of his followers except for General Atlas , who was forced to hold the Sky since the sky would fall and destroy everything if the Titans of the East, West, North and South were.

The gods chose Mount Olympus , the tallest mountain in Greece after Mount Othrys, as their official residence, and the Elder Cyclopes built magnificent palaces there for them all. As a result, the gods started to call themselves the Olympians. Shortly thereafter, Hades had a private meeting with his younger brothers Poseidon and Zeus , and the three mighty sons of Kronos agreed to divide the world between themselves.

Although it was Hades' birthright as Kronos ' firstborn son to be named his father's successor, he agreed to divide the Titan King's former domain with his brothers. Hades received the Underworld , Poseidon seized the seas and oceans, and Zeus claimed the heavens as his domain. Shortly after this division, the three mighty sons of Kronos came to be known as "The Big Three. Unfortunately for Hades, he was greatly feared by all of his siblings, nephews, and nieces, and hence, he was hardly ever invited to Olympus except for the Winter Solstice , the darkest day of the year.

However, by gaining the Underworld , Hades also gained divine authority over all of the precious metals and jewels under the earth, becoming far richer than any of the other Olympians. Although Hades was distanced from his Olympian family, he was lonely and very much wanted a wife to fill the void.

One day, he spotted a young goddess named Persephone , the daughter of Zeus and Demeter , whose incredible beauty and tender countenance won his admiration. Hades began to fall madly in love with the young goddess. He would carry portraits of her in his pockets, carve her name into his obsidian breakfast table, have long imaginary conversations with her, and even secretly spy on her while wearing his Helm of Darkness.

Hades fell so deeply in love with Persephone, that for the first time ever, he became sloppy in his duties as Lord of the Dead. Hades wished to take her as his bride despite his estrangement with her parents and his siblings , Demeter and Zeus. He knew that Persephone's overprotective mother would refuse to even consider the marriage, so decided to speak with her father instead. Shortly thereafter, Hades mustered up enough courage to visit Olympus, and begged Zeus , Persephone's father, to allow him to marry her.

Zeus happened to be in a good mood at the time and advised his lovesick brother to kidnap Persephone, even going so far as to help him by growing several fields of magnificent flowers. Hence, Hades succeeded in kidnapping his beloved Persephone, but she did not want to stay with him, and wished to be rescued. Over time though, she came to admire Hades' power and wealth, and gradually fell in love with him, relieved to finally be free from her mother Demeter's bossiness, nagging, and smothering for a time.

Hades was very kind, patient, and he didn't ever nag, boss, or smother Persephone. He very much wanted her to reciprocate his great love, and tried to buy her affections with many magnificent gifts at first, but then took to spending all of his day with her, desperately trying to make her happy. Hades even hired the most skilled deceased gardeners in the Underworld lead by Askalaphos to grow a magnificent garden for Persephone, full of her favorite trees and flowers.

Hence, it was Hades' empathy and kindness which eventually won Persephone's heart. Meanwhile, a distraught and grief-stricken Demeter soon caused the earth to become barren and infertile when she learned of the abduction, and furiously blamed Zeus for allowing Hades to court Persephone behind her back. Pressured by mortal prayers and the other Olympians, Zeus finally demanded that the Lord of the Dead return his daughter, and sent Hermes to deliver the message.

Hades was devastated at the prospect of losing his newfound wife, but was forced to submit to the will of Zeus. However, while Hermes delivered the message, Hades' gardener Askalaphos tricked Persephone into eating six pomegranate seeds, so she had to stay with Hades for six months of the year. This came at a cost, as Demeter never could accept that her daughter had married Hades, and left "her poor mother".

Demeter's nagging increased with this action, but Persephone got to stay with her husband this way. While Hades did very much love his wife Persephone , he was quite lonely during the time she spent with Demeter , which is when he would have affairs, which, however, usually ended badly. For instance, when Hades fell in love with the beautiful Oceanid Leuke, he brought her to the Underworld.

However, fearing a jealous Persephone eventually discovering this, Hades decided to turn Leuke into a poplar tree, to keep her with him without his wife knowing.

Later, when a beautiful nymph , Minthe a naiad of the River Cocytus , bragged about Hades' passionate love for her and claimed to, therefore, be more beautiful than Persephone, the jealous and infuriated goddess instantly appeared before her, and transformed her into the plant mint. Persephone, on her part remained very loyal to her husband and only cheated on him once, with Adonis, the handsomest mortal man in the world.

Adonis would only spent a third of each year with her spending the rest with Aphrodite , and would have to hide in closets and under her bed every time Hades entered her chambers, since Persephone was desperate to hide her lover from her irascible husband. Shortly thereafter, however, Adonis was stabbed to death by Ares ' wild boar, much to Persephone's dismay.

This would remain the one and only time that she ever cheated on Hades. King Sisyphus of Corinth, not wanting to die, managed to cheat death by immobilizing Thanatos with heavy chains and placing the latter under his royal bed. As a result, with Death itself imprisoned, mortals were unable to die, much to the dismay of Ares , who relished military carnage. As a result, the war god promptly found Thanatos and freed him, after which both gods incinerated Sisyphus. The king's soul was deemed worthy of an audience with Hades himself.

Before Sisyphus died, he told his wife, Merope, not to bury him, so when he was brought down to the Underworld, he defended his right to a proper funeral. Hades let him go, so Sisyphus could scold Merope for not giving him a proper funeral. Thus, Sisyphus would become the only mortal man to have ever tricked the Lord of the Dead, since he, of course had no intention of ever returning to Hades, and instead re-assembled the remains of his body back together, and lived on quietly for several years.

Eventually, however, Hades was reminded of the treacherous king, and had him dragged back to the Underworld by Hermes. Hence, in order to keep Sisyphus too occupied to scheme again, Hades took him to the Fields of Punishment and ordered him to roll a huge boulder up a hill as his punishment, letting Sisyphus know that he would be set free as soon as the boulder reached the summit.

Sisyphus tried, but it would imminently fall back when he got close to the top of the hill. He would try again, and again, and again forever, always in vain. This represented the punishment of Sisyphus, with him being doomed to an eternity of frustration. Asclepius was the favorite demigod son of Apollo , who eventually became the greatest healer in the world.

In fact, Asclepius became even more skilled in medicine than his father Apollo, most likely because he devoted all of his time to it.

With the help of Gorgon Blood given to him by Athena , Asclepius could cure any illness, heal any injury, and even make the Physician's Cure that could resurrect the dead. This, upon hearing of the death of her dear friend Hippolytus , the goddess Artemis requested that Asclepius revive him from the dead with the cure, which he was more than happy to do. This, however, infuriated Hades, so he stormed up to Mount Olympus , demanding that Asclepius pay the price for transgressing and openly mocking the natural laws of life and death.

Zeus appeased his furious brother by personally striking down Asclepius with a thunderbolt. Apollo was angered and devastated by his favorite son's death, and killed one of the younger Cyclopes who forged Zeus' thunderbolts in retaliation and this resulted in Zeus making Apollo mortal and forcing him to serve a king for a whole year.

To prevent more feuds, Asclepius was resurrected and made into a god, but Hades forbid him from ever resurrecting the dead again. The famous demigod musician Orpheus , devastated by the untimely death of his wife Eurydice, creates a new entrance to the Underworld with his beautiful music and singing.

He made his way all the way to Hades' palace, with ghosts, Charon , Cerberus , and even the furies themselves being brought to tears by his ineffably lachrymose and beautiful music. Even Hades himself shed a few tears, feeling as though Orpheus had distilled Hades' life, with all its grief and disappointment, all its darkness and solitude, and turned it into music. Impressed by the man's love, bravery and skill, Hades and Persephone allowed him to take Eurydice back, on the condition that he would walk in front and not look behind him as he led her back to the upper world along the borderland between the living and the dead.

However, Orpheus could not resist the temptation the moment he crossed the border, and looked back just before his wife left the Underworld , losing her forever. For Hercules ' last labor, he was ordered by King Eurystheus to bring back Hades' mighty and ferocious pet dog Cerberus as proof of his strength and fearlessness. Hercules eventually found the entrance to the Underworld and entered, but rather than attack Cerberus on sight, Hercules, who had heard many stories of Hades and how the Lord of the Dead treated intruders, ignored the infernal monster who let him pass and continued straight onward to Hades' Palace.

Hera 's plan to pit Hercules against a furious Hades backfired, when the hero humbly knelt before the terrifying Lord of the Dead, and asked permission to take Cerberus. Hades was impressed by Hercules, who until then had an infamous reputation for acting without thinking, and while all heroes who had previously entered the Underworld did so to win fame, Hercules was the first to place respect for Hades above his own ambitions. Hades was so impressed with this, that he granted the demigod permission to take Cerberus on a few conditions.

The first was that Hercules could not seriously injure Cerberus, and thus, could not use his weapons against him. The second condition was that Hercules had to bring Cerberus back as soon as the labour was completed. The third and final condition, was that the hero had to tell Hades who had asked him to bring back Cerberus as a trophy.

Hercules promptly agreed to all of the terms, and told Hades, that it was King Eurystheus that had asked the labor of him. Thus, placing aside his mighty club and deadly Hydra arrows, Hercules returned to Cerberus to wrestle the beast barehanded. Cerberus was tremendously strong and fierce, his three heads biting and snarling rapidly. The combatants seemed evenly matched, and fought so fiercely that earth cracked beneath them and walls shook.

In the end, however, Hercules managed to headlock and slowly drag Cerberus out of the Underworld, back to King Eurystheus. The king was terrified when Hercules returned, as he had not expected Hercules to return from what he believed to be a suicide mission, and ordered the hero to get the beast out of his kingdom. As he had promised Hades, Hercules escorted Cerberus all the way back to the Underworld.

In retaliation however, Hades appeared before King Eurystheus while Hercules was dragging Cerberus back. The furious Lord of the Dead demanded to know why King Eurystheus had dared to send someone into his realm to take his beloved pet as a trophy. Eurystheus collapsed in fear and begged Hades to spare him, revealing to Hades that he received orders for all of Hercules' labors from Hera herself who was trying to send Hercules to his death. As a result, Hades paid a visit to Hera, and made it clear to her that there would be direct consequences for her if she would ever send Hercules or another hero on any such errand again.

Over the centuries the Olympians moved west to the countries that held the seats of their great power and influence. After Hades' side Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan was defeated, the Oracle prophesied that a half-blood child of one the three brothers would either cause the downfall or salvation of Olympus. This caused The Big Three gods to swear an oath to no longer sire any more demigod children, but because Hades already had two demigods, Zeus ordered him to take them to Camp Half-Blood.

Hades disobeyed, for fear that his children would either be turned against him or killed. An angry Zeus retaliated by trying to kill the young demigods, Bianca and Nico di Angelo , by destroying the hotel they were currently residing in, but Hades managed to protect them at the last moment. However, much to his devastation, he failed to save their mother, Maria di Angelo , and threatened to "crush [Zeus]" for what he had done.

Despite his wanting to resurrect Maria, Alecto stopped him by reminding him that he, of all the gods, must respect the laws of death. Still extremely bitter at his brother for murdering his lover Maria, Hades sends the most terrifying monsters of the Underworld including all three Furies to destroy her.

He was a very talented ironmonger and he would make weapons for all of the gods. He also created an excellent suit of armor for Achilles in his forge. He found his wife Aphrodite cheating on him with Ares and threw a giant net over them to capture them. He humiliated them both and stripped them of their special powers. To punish his mother Hera, he once tied her up in thick chains that he had made and then refused to undo them. His symbols are the anvil and the forge.

Aphrodite was the goddess of beauty and love. She emerged from the foam on the waves of the sea on the island of Cyprus. Aphrodite was the daughter of Zeus and another of his lovers — the Titan — Dione. Aphrodite was so beautiful that every man fell in love with her and just like her father, she was very flirtatious.

She had numerous affairs, She had a son with Ares, the god of war and they named him Eros who became famous for shooting arrows at people to make them fall in love.

Aphrodite loved roses and doves and her chariot was pulled by these beautiful birds. Ares, the god of war was said to be violent and full of physical aggression — so much so, that his own parents, Zeus and Hera did not like him.

He was born in Thrace, an area in northeast Greece, known for its fierce fighters and Ares was very successful in war. He was unpopular and not worshipped and any myths about him talked of his humiliation. Ares is usually depicted with a spear and helmet. Hermes, with his winged helmet and characteristic sandals, was the god of commerce and travel.

Hermes was also the messenger of the gods. He invented the lyre which he made from the shell of a turtle. The most gentle and oldest goddess was Hestia, sister of Zeus. She was the goddess of the home and family. She was responsible for ensuring that all the fire hearths on Mount Olympus kept burning, which was considered an important job as the fire hearth was the focus of the family.

Her symbol is fire. This info was very helpful to me in separating out who is who. Thank you. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The throne of Zeus in Olympus mountain Table of Content show. Aphrodite the goddess of beauty and love. Ares the god of war.

On all other days he was running the Underworld — by himself — while his brothers Poseidon and Zeus enjoyed lives of luxury! Safe to say that the Hades who shows up every year at Olympus is not a gift-bearing, high-fiving, Hades.

Percy remembers that Annabeth had asked him what he knew about the summer solstice when she was nursing him back to health. Annabeth tells Percy that soon after their field trip to Mount Olympus, the weather got really bad, as though the gods were fighting. When Percy discovers how long they were inside the Lotus Casino, he says that their deadline is at midnight the next day, after which Zeus and Poseidon will go to war unless the bolt is returned to Olympus.

He had a dream. It was storming on the beach. Beautiful animals, a white horse and a golden eagle, trying to kill each other. Why does Percy ask for blue coke at dinner? In what way does Percy feel different once he gets to the Bonfire? He felt that no one was staring at him anymore and he felt at home. Tyson shares his name with professional boxer Mike Tyson.