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Recovering Future Considerations Truther
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Some sources claim it rather was Thanatos who got imprisoned. Hades was Zeus' brother and an Olympian god who got the netherworld realm of Hades as his fief of sort after the war with the Titans, but Thanatos was the actual personification of death and one of the dark children of Nyx (night) and Erebos (darkness), twin brother of Hypnos (sleep).According to this page he tricked and trapped Hades and made it so no one could die while Hades was locked up. Encyclopedia of Greek Mythology: Sisyphus But before that even happened it says "He was notorious as the most cunning knave on earth." Doesn't go into specifics but what an honor. Apparently he had some kind of punishment coming either way that just made it worse
Not unlike Sissypho, Hercules once saved the life of a princess who had volunteered her life over her husband, by taking Thanatos when he appeared into a half nelson hold until he acquiesced. Moral of the story: having the right daddy gets you out of all kinds of crap free.