Her assistance even enabled Diomedes to injure the god of war with a spear. She used it to become invisible to Ares when she aided Diomedes, his enemy. He then used this helmet to great effect during the Titanomachy and was instrumental in routing the Titans.Īthena, the goddess of wisdom, battle, and handicrafts, wore the Cap of Invisibility in one instance during the Trojan War. It was forged for him by Elder Cyclopses after he and his brothers Zeus and Poseidon freed them from Tartarus. The helmet becomes proverbial for those who conceal their true nature by a cunning device: "the helmet of Pluto, which maketh the politic man go invisible, is secrecy in the counsel, and celerity in the execution." Users Hades Īs the name implies, Hades owned the helmet. Rabelais calls it the Helmet of Pluto, and Erasmus the Helmet of Orcus. In classical mythology the helmet is regularly said to belong to the god of the underworld. One ancient source that attributes a special helmet to the ruler of the underworld is the Bibliotheca (2nd/1st century BC), in which the Uranian Cyclops give Zeus the lightning bolt, Poseidon the trident, and a helmet (kyneê) to Hades (or Pluto) in their war against the Titans. Those wearing the Cap become invisible to other supernatural entities, akin to a cloud of mist sometimes used to remain undetectable. Wearers of the cap in Greek myths include Athena, the goddess of wisdom, the messenger god Hermes, and the hero Perseus. dog-skin of Hades) is a helmet or cap that can turn the wearer invisible, also known as the Cap of Hades or Helm of Hades. In classical mythology, the Cap of Invisibility (Ἅϊδος κυνέη (H)aïdos kyneē in Greek, lit. Cellini's Perseus (1545–54), wearing the Cap of Invisibility and carrying the head of Medusa
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