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The Similarities Between Zeus And Hades

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Although Zeus and Hades were brothers there were barely, if any, similarities between the two. In fact, the two were basically polar opposites. However even with their many differences they still shared one or two similarities. One being brothers, as I mentioned before the two got along quite well until they drew for their share of the world and Zeus was declared ruler of the world and Hades was sent down to the underworld where he ruled. That brings up one of their other similarities, the both were both gods. However, from then on the two had nothing else in common and shared more dissimilarities than anything. As I mentioned many times the two were barely similar, a couple of examples would be the following: Zeus, as mentioned many times

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