If you were to compare Hades to a modern day person, who would it be?

Question

Is there a way that you could connect them by like how appearances aren't always as they seem. Because Hades isn't really a bad guy, but people just seem him as bad because he's king of the underworld. Who could relate to that, and be similar in other ways?

Answer 1

Heinrich Wirz, the commandant of Andersonville PoW camp during the Civil War. By most accounts he was not an inhuman person- he was even capable of great humanity- but he was charged with a thankless task (housing tens of thousands of prisoners for whom there was no food, provisions, or time and supplies to build housing) and due to the high death tolls from disease and the misery of the place he received an evil reputation and was hanged (even though many of his former inmates actually wrote depositions [disallowed by the court] asking for clemency).
I nominate him because like Hades, he was given a hellish place to oversee and was bound to become held responsible for the horrors, suffering and inhumanity of the place he was charged with even though he was not a sadist.
There was even an odd "love story" associated with him rather like Orpheus and Eurydice with Hades. The wife of a Union Captain (a man named Harry Hunt) was so devoted to her husband that she disguised herself as a man to be kept with him in the prison and actually gave birth in A'ville while disguised as a man; Wirz had mother and baby removed and housed in a comfortable small house near the prison and even allowed her husband to visit her there [under guard]).
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Otherwise, I'd go with FDR during the Depression, or almost any jailer (for essentially Hades is a warden- he really drew short-straw among the gods, though frankly I probably wouldn't like being Poseidon much better- after a while you'd get so tired of fish and shrimp).

Answer 2

Modern Day Hades

Answer 3

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I'm shocked by the attitudes of some of the other posters that Hades is somehow Satan. Just for a run down: -- Hades isn't a bad guy, just the ruler of the Underworld where *all* people go after their die. -- He's smart, cunning, a little spooky -- handsome but lonely. -- His job isn't glamorous and his home isn't glitzy, but it's his. Persephone missed sunshine most since that is one thing Hades couldn't provide. Personally, I've always likened David Bowie as the Goblin King ("Labyrinth") to Hades. I would have stayed with him in a heartbeat!

Answer 4

Good question. very good.

I've always seemed to picture Hades as the overlooked middle child. Zeus, the elder took command. The younger brother Poseidon got given the seas. Hades.... got given what was left over afterwards. Throughout his legends he -always- seems to draw the short straw on things, position of power, domains of influence, even his married life had others having a say in it.

Therefore, I see him as a nearly impeached Clinton. Trying to keep his head above water as it makes it impossible for his job to get done, trying to keep everyone onside as the sharks close in.

Answer 5

Hillary Clinton.

Answer 6

I don't think this can really be answered because unless you really know that person, you can never know their real intentions. Also, I think you're looking for a celebrity, and as I've said, you don't actually know the person.

Sorry I don't have a real answer.

Answer 7

The late Dewey D'Angelo.

Answer 8

george bush because if you look at the personality of hades he is power hungry so in that sense thats why i said that

Answer 9

My cousin