Wealth and laments: Hades giver of good things
5:00pm - 6:30pm /
Tuesday 10th October 2017
/ Venue: Walbank Lecture Theatre Abercromby SQ (south)
- Georgia Petridou
- Suitable for: Anybody interested in the topic, including university staff and students and members of the public.
- Admission: This event is free and open to all. No registration neccessary, for further information please contact Georgia Petridou: petridou@liverpool.ac.uk
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Dr Diana Burton, Victoria University of Wellington/Institute of Classical Studies London
Hades is one of the most contradictory of gods: a ruthless and greedy snatcher of the living, a remote and inactive lord of the dead, a benign and generous deity of agricultural prosperity. Such differences are largely driven by the demands of genre and media; the god who snatches a young girl in a funerary inscription is clearly going to show a different personality to the god who dispenses agrarian wealth. In this paper I will consider some contradictory aspects of the god across a range of sources, and in doing so will discuss the common core that binds the different aspects of Hades into one coherent god.
Hades is one of the most contradictory of gods: a ruthless and greedy snatcher of the living, a remote and inactive lord of the dead, a benign and generous deity of agricultural prosperity. Such differences are largely driven by the demands of genre and media; the god who snatches a young girl in a funerary inscription is clearly going to show a different personality to the god who dispenses agrarian wealth. In this paper I will consider some contradictory aspects of the god across a range of sources, and in doing so will discuss the common core that binds the different aspects of Hades into one coherent god.