At 10/28/18 12:07 PM, AudioMachina22 wrote:
I assumed that Hades was a place where peope go after they die.
Nope, Hades is the Greek god of the underworld, brother to Zeus and Poseidon. People who die don't go es Haden ("into Hades"), they go es Hadou ("into Hades's [place]"). The usage of the seemingly wrong case has baffled a lot of scholars who really should know that the word for "place" in these instances can be omitted in Old Greek just as it can in English, as there are several other examples in different contexts, like Socrates and friends meeting up at Agathon's.