To celebrate their happiness at the discovery that aidoneus, dread King of Death, is none other than the Lord of Life "leader of the blessed to the highest heaven," they resolve to bring about the redemption of the world.
"The Three Heron's Feathers"
Hermann Sudermann
The king, his own name being aidoneus, or Pluto, called his wife Proserpina, and his daughter Cora, and a great dog which he kept Cerberus, with whom he ordered all that came as suitors to his daughter to fight, and promised her to him that should overcome the beast.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
Now Hercules, passing by the Molossians, was entertained in his way by aidoneus the king, who, in conversation, accidentally spoke of the journey of Theseus and Pirithous into his country, of what they had designed to do, and what they were forced to suffer.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh