The artist was to be transported by them from hadean depths of despair to Olympian heights of rejoicing.
1590s, from Greek Haides, in Homer the name of the god of the underworld, of unknown origin. Perhaps literally "the invisible" [Watkins]. The name of the god transferred in later Greek writing to his kingdom. Related: Hadal (adj.), 1964; Hadean.
The Greek and Roman god of the underworld and the ruler of the dead. Also called Dis. The underworld itself was also known to the Greeks as Hades.
Note: The Greek and Roman underworld later became associated with the hell of Christianity, as in the expression “hot as Hades.”
