HadesThe name Hades rightfully refers to the god and not the place; its incorrect attribution to the latter arises from the elliptical Greek employment of the genitive case (Haidou) to mean ‘house of Hades’. He was a son of Cronos and Rhea, and consequently brother of Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter, whose daughter was Persephone, his consort and Queen of the Dead.