Hades
Hades (/ˈheɪdiːz/; Ancient Greek: ᾍδης or Άͅδης, Háidēs) was the ancient Greek chthonic god of the underworld, which eventually took his name.
In Greek mythology, Hades was regarded as the oldest son of Cronus and Rhea, although the last son regurgitated by his father. He and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon defeated their father's generation of gods, the Titans, and claimed rulership over the cosmos. Hades received the underworld, Zeus the air, and Poseidon the sea, with the solid earth—long the province of Gaia—available to all three concurrently. Hades was often portrayed with his three-headed guard dog Cerberus and, in later mythological authors, associated with the Helm of Darkness and the bident.
The Etruscan god Aita and Roman gods Dis Pater and Orcus were eventually taken as equivalent to the Greek Hades and merged as Pluto, a latinization of his euphemistic Greek name Plouton.
Name
The origin of Hades' name is uncertain, but has generally been seen as meaning "The Unseen One" since antiquity. 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". Modern linguists have proposed the Proto-Greek form *Awides ("unseen"). The earliest attested form is Aḯdēs (Ἀΐδης), which lacks the proposed digamma. West argues instead for an original meaning of "the one who presides over meeting up" from the universality of death.
Hades (film)
Hades is a 1995 German drama film directed by and starring Herbert Achternbusch. It was entered into the 45th Berlin International Film Festival.
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List of Saint Seiya antagonists
The following list comprises the various antagonistic factions that appear in the manga Saint Seiya and the sequel Saint Seiya: Next Dimension, written and illustrated by Masami Kurumada.
The antagonic characters appear as various deities from Greek mythology, who rule over the realms that form Earth, and their servants who form part of their armies created to wage war against Athena, the protector of the Earth realm. In addition, several factions aren't presented as soldiers of these armies, but as organizations who pursue their own ends.
Black Saints
The Black Saints (暗黒聖闘士（ブラックセイント）, Burakku Seinto). alternatively spelled as Ankoku Saint (あんこくセイント, Ankoku Seinto) in the anime, appear as servants of the Bronze Saint Phoenix Ikki, on his quest to kill all the Bronze Saints. The Black Saints are former Saints who were stripped from their title and Cloth for using their strength for personal gain, turning to a life of crime and violence. All of them trained in Death Queen Island along with several sons from Mitsumasa Kido, but most of them died. Although there is a Black Saint counterpart for each one of the 88 constellations, Kurumada featured prominently only four in his manga, the dark equivalents of the protagonists: Black Pegasus (ブラックペガサス, Burakku Pegasasu) voiced by Shigeru Nakahara, Black Andromeda (ブラックアンドロメダ, Burakku Andoromeda) voiced by Kaneto Shiozawa, Black Dragon (ブラックドラゴン, Burakku Doragon) voiced by Ken Yamaguchi and Black Swan (ブラックスワン, Burakku Suwan) voiced by Kazumi Tanaka.
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