Web search turns up claims of up to seven children by Hades, some by Persephone, although it gets wierd in terms of who the kids were and who the parents were with different versions giving different people.Of course with Hades you have less choice as an artist. Hades really wanted Persephone as his wife, and wanted to have her children – though as far as I know they didn't actually end up having children together – clearly Hades still had fleshy bits for that to work. Charon didn't have a wife that I know of.
Almost all the web stuff I find insists that Persephone spends the winter months in Hades while the Earth is baren. I remember ACOUP once claiming that she spent the SUMMER in the underworld, as the greek agricultural season was in the winter when it rained. I can't find that post today, but did find:
https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2023/ ... he-winter/
Which goes through a fairly long discussion with various Greek and translated sources.
Statistics: Posted by Doug Lampert — 25 Jan 2024 19:45