Hades (disambiguation)

Hades may mean:

• Hades, ancient Greek abode of the dead (the underworld) and the god of that place

In Christianity

• Hades in Christianity, according to the New Testament the place where the dead will be. See also Sheol.
• Hell in Christian beliefs, In the New Testament, was written in the Greek language, Hades was not often used as a synonym for hell, but since the Middle Ages, has often been taken as a synonym for hell.

Computers

• HADES (software), a signal processing system
• Hades, a utility library for work with Data Access Objects. It is implemented using the Spring Framework and the Java Persistence API.
• Hades Simulation Framework, the Hamburg Design System, a framework for interactive simulation. The Java based software consists of a graphical editor, the discrete-event based simulation engine(s), libraries of simulation components, a design and library browser, and tools like waveform viewer and scripting shell.

Music

• Hades Almighty, a black metal band
• Hades Records, a record label
• A song by Finnish melodic death metal band Kalmah, from their 2000 album Swamplord
• A song by Japanese rock band Dir en grey from their EP Six Ugly

In fiction

• Hades (DC Comics), a foe of Wonder Woman
• Hades (Honorverse), a fictional maximum security prison in the David Weber's Honorverse
• Hades (Disney), the villain from the 1997 Disney film Hercules
• The Gray Wastes of Hades, also known as Hades, a Dungeons and Dragons plane
• A hypothetical planet used in Uranian astrology
• Hades (The Hills Have Eyes) a character from The Hills Have Eyes series of films
• Hades (Saint Seiya), the Greek god Hades as used as a character in the Saint Seiya ficitonal scenario
• Hades Nebula, a videogame
• Acheron Hades, foe of Thursday Next from the books of Jasper Fforde.
• A neutron star in the Delta Pavonis system in the novel Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds.
• Hades Fairy Tail Anime, guild master of Grimoire Heart and former second master of Fairy Tail Guild.
• Hades (film), a 1995 German film

Miscellaneous

• Hades (butterfly), a genus of metalmark butterflies from Central America
• Hades (horse), a New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse
• Hades (moon), an informal name from 1955 to 1975 for Jupiter IX: it is now called Sinope
• Hadès (missile), a French nuclear ballistic missile system
• Lena Hades (Лена Хейдиз), a Russian artist
• Hades (roller coaster), a roller coaster at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park
• The word "hades" may be one syllable, being a form of the verb and noun "to hade", which is a miners' term for the way that a geologic fault has slipped, or in geology the angle of inclination from the vertical of a vein (geology), fault, or lode