Hades
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I’m also a myths and legends geek, and I fell hard for the Hades and Persephone story.
From New York Times
The actor and the director met about five years ago at the National in London, where Page was playing Hades in the musical “Hadestown,” a role for which he would later receive a Tony nomination.
From Washington Post
As an employee of a Manhattan establishment that catered to traveling assassins, Charon — named after the ferryman of Hades in Greek mythology — was the soul of discretion.
From New York Times
Broadway audiences know this actor, with a voice that resonates like the bottom note on a keyboard, from dark characters in musicals: Hades in “Hadestown,” the Green Goblin in “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark.”
From Washington Post
We encounter it first in Homer’s “Iliad” and then again in Virgil’s “Aeneid,” where it appears at the doors of Hades alongside Gorgons, centaurs and Harpies.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
