Did the Ancient Greeks worship Hades? Hades’ presence in Ancient Greek religion

Описание: hi everyone! this was an assignment for my classics seminar course, but i had some people express interest in it on tiktok so i figured i would update it here.

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here are the sources i referenced
Primary

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1992.
Homer. The Iliad. Translation by Emily Wilson. New York: W. W Norton & Company, Inc.,
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Pausanias. Pausanias Description of Greece. Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A.
Ormerod. London: Harvard University Press, 1918.
Strabo. The Geography of Strabo. Translation by William Heinemann. London: Harvard
University Press, 1924.
The Homeric Hymns to Demeter 2. Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White. London: Harvard
University Press, 1914.

Secondary
Dimakis, Nikolas. “Ancient Greek Deathscapes.” Journal of Eastern Mediterranean
Archaeology & Heritage Studies 3, no. 1 (2015): 27–41.
Fairbanks, Arthur. “Attitudes of Worship in Greece.” The Biblical World 9, no. 2 (1897):
98–111.
Fairbanks, Arthur. “The Chthonic Gods of Greek Religion.” The American Journal of
Philology 21, no. 3 (1900): 241–59
Farnell, Lewis Richard. “CULTS OF HADES-PLOUTON.” In The Cults of the Greek States.
Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Lloyd-Jones, Hugh. “Ancient Greek Religion.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society 145, no. 4 (2001): 456–64
Mackin Roberts, Ellie. Underworld Gods in Ancient Greek Religion: Death and Reciprocity.
1st edition. Routledge, 2020.