Pluto

One of the most famous Ancient Roman gods we want to introduce to you is Pluto. Pluto was the king of the Greek underworld in ancient Greek religion and mythology. The god's previous name was Hades, which became more popular as the name of the underworld itself. Pluto is a more positive representation of the god who rules over the afterlife. Ploutn was frequently confused with Ploutos, the Greek god of wealth, because mineral wealth was discovered underground and because Pluto, as a chthonic god, ruled the deep earth, which housed the seeds for a plentiful crop. The term Ploutn became popular during the Eleusinian Mysteries when Pluto was revered as both a strict ruler and a loving spouse to Persephone. The couple got souls in the afterlife and are invoked as Plouton and Kore, respectively, in religious inscriptions. In contrast, Hades was affiliated with a few temples and religious rites, and he is portrayed as the dark and brutal abduction of Persephone.

Pluto and Hades have different personalities, but they are not separate characters that share two major myths. In Greek cosmogony, the deity was given control of the underworld as part of a three-way division of world sovereignty, with his brother Zeus overseeing the sky and his other brother Poseidon ruling the sea. In myth, his major narrative is that he abducts Persephone to be his wife and queen of his realm. Plouton as the name of the underworld monarch first appears in Classical Greek literature, in the works of Athenian playwrights and the philosopher Plato, who is the principal Greek source of its significance. Under the name Pluto, the god appears in various tales in a secondary role, usually as the possessor of a quest object, and especially in Orpheus' or other heroes' trip into the underworld.