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Hades is the god of the underworld. He is also known as Pluto, Plouton, Dis (Roman), and Aidoneus. His attributes in iconography are the cornucopia and the sceptre.

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Images

Ancient Sources

• Athena, Herakles, Cerberus, Hades, Persephone in Underworld: Image
  Leagros Group, 520 BC, MM

• Hades and Persephone: Large image, 50% image
  Locri, votive relief, ca 480 BC, MM

• Hades and Persephone: Image
  ca 460-450 BC, MM

• Plouton and Persephone: Image
  Codrus Painter, last quarter of 5th century BC, MM

• Persephone and Hades: Large image, 50% image
  mid 4th century BC, MM

• As Plouton: Overview
  Info, Classical

• Hades and Persephone: Image
  Lycurgus painter, the Underworld, ca 350 BC, MM

• The Rape of Persephone: Large image 50% image
  Vergina, tomb, ca 350 BC, MM

• Rape of Persephone: Image
  Kerch, wall painting, 1st century AD, MM

Later Representations in Art

• Pluto and Proserpina: Image
  French manuscript, 15th century, MM

• Pluto: Large image, 50% image
  Carracci, Agostino, 1592, MM

• The Rape of Proserpine: Large image, 50% image
  Rubens, Peter Paul, 1619-1620, MM

• Pluto and Proserpine: Large image, 50% image
  Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1621-1622, MM

• Pluto abducting Proserpine: Large image, 50% image
  Girardon, Francois, ca 1693-1710, MM

• The Abduction of Perserpine: Image
  Boucher, Francois, 1769, MM

Also see Hades texts.

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