Ploutonion: Temple of Hades (Eleusis, Greece)

Ploutonion: Temple of Hades (Eleusis, Greece)

Persephone and Hades

Eleusinian mysteries

Ancient Greek religion

Temples, Greek--Greece

Hades (Greek deity)

Classical Greece

Homeric hymn to Demeter

This photograph shows the ruins of the Ploutonion, a temple dedicated to the god of the underworld, Hades. Classical beliefs prevented the Greeks from referring to Hades by his proper name, so the alias, "Pluto," meaning "Wealth," was used in its stead. The temple was built into the recesses of the cave where it was believed Persephone descended to and ascended from the underworld every year. In this sense, this small cave at Eleusis was believed to be the entrance to the underworld.

Proctor, Christopher

03-June-2007

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Attikē (Greece)

1500 BCE – 396 CE