Pluto
deity figure · 7 works · 8 mentions · 11 anchored passages
Hades · Aides · Father Dis · Plouton · the brother of Jupiter
spoken of as
2 expressionsHades“Pluto”2 mentions
Protrepticus (Greek) · Cratylus (Greek)
and that this xoanon was a statue of Pluto;
Dis“Pluto”1 mention
On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
But all the earthly force and nature was dedicated to Father Dis, who is the rich one — as among the Greeks Plouton — because all things both fall back into the earth and arise from the earth.
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Heracles
God of the underworld; his 'halls' are named as the realm from which Heracles has just returned.
for he emerged from caverns beneath the earth after leaving Pluto’s halls below.
Surely I have not come a second time to Hades’ halls, having just returned from there for Eurystheus?
On the Nature of the Gods
God of the underworld/earth's riches, called Plouton by the Greeks.
But all the earthly force and nature was dedicated to Father Dis, who is the rich one — as among the Greeks Plouton — because all things both fall back into the earth and arise from the earth.
Protrepticus
God of the underworld, identified with Dionysus, classed among demons, and linked to the Sarapis cult image.
and that this xoanon was a statue of Pluto;
Or is it plain that these, and those more honoured than they, the great demons — Apollo, Artemis, Leto, Demeter, Kore, Pluto, Heracles, Zeus himself?
"but Hades and Dionysus are the same, in whose honour they rave and keep the Lenaean rite" — not so much because of the drunkenness of the body, as I think, as because of the disgraceful initiation into wantonness.
Evagoras
Underworld deity beside whom Aeacus is said to receive honors after death.
During his entire stay among men he ever enjoyed the fairest repute, and after his departure from life it is said that he sits by the side of Pluto and Kore in the enjoyment of the highest honors.
Cratylus
God of the underworld, discussed under both his names, defended by Socrates as a wise binder of souls by desire rather than a figure to be feared.
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Antigone
The underworld god invoked in prayers before the burial rites for Polyneices.
After we had prayed to the goddess of the roads and to Pluto to restrain their anger in mercy, we washed him with pure washing, and with freshly-plucked boughs we burned what remains there were.
Apologeticum
Underworld god impersonated by an arena official removing bodies.
we have seen the brother of Jupiter dragging away the bodies of gladiators with his mallet.