Offering HWYL 05 002

2024-12-21T00:00:00Z

Offering "Some say Pluto (Hades), the Lord of the underworld, gained this appellative 'because of his wealth of corpses'... This would imply that ‘his possessions’ are the people held in his domain. This is also confirmed in the myth about Asclepius, in one reason given for Zeus striking Asclepius down with a bolt of lightning. Apparently, this was in response to a charge brought by Hades, that Asclepius was acting to the detriment of Hades’ domain, for, he said, 'the number of the dead was steadily diminishing, now that men were being healed by Asclepius’" (p. 128). Bolt, Peter. Jesus' Defeat of Death: Persuading Mark's Early Readers. Cambridge University Press, 2003. https://archive.org/details/jesusdefeatofdea0000bolt/page/n9/mode/2up