Hades, the Greek god of the underworld, is not evil despite his role as ruler of the dead. He is misunderstood because of his dark and unknowable nature. He is depicted as stern and pitiless, unmoved by prayer or sacrifice (like death itself). Forbidding and aloof, he never quite emerges as a distinct personality from the shadowy darkness of his realm, not even in the myth of his abduction of Persephone.
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