id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7983 Pluto (mythology) - Wikipedia .html text/html 19081 1775 71 Hades is an unsympathetic figure, and Persephone's unwillingness is emphasized.[29] Increased usage of the name Plouton in religious inscriptions and literary texts reflects the influence of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which treated Pluto and Persephone as a divine couple who received initiates in the afterlife; as such, Pluto was disassociated from the "violent abductor" of Kore.[30] Two early works that give the abductor god's name as Pluto are the Greek mythography traditionally known as the Library of "Apollodorus" (1st century BC)[31] and the Latin Fables of Hyginus (ca. In the ritual texts of the mystery religions preserved by the so-called Orphic or Bacchic gold tablets, from the late 5th century BC onward[62] the name Hades appears more frequently than Plouton, but in reference to the underground place:[63] Plouton is the ruler who presides over it in a harmonious partnership[64] with Persephone.[65] By the end of the 4th century BC, the name Plouton appears in Greek metrical inscriptions.[66] Two fragmentary tablets greet Pluto and Persephone jointly,[67] and the divine couple appear as welcoming figures in a metrical epitaph: ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7983.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7983.txt