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LOCATION:Walbank Lecture Theatre, Abercromby SQ (south), 
SUMMARY:Wealth and laments: Hades giver of good things
DESCRIPTION: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.
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