Plutus: The God Of Wealth Analysis

Plutus was the god of wealth. It was not always like that though. Plutus started as one who was only concerned with agricultural bounty (Theoi). He is later known to represent wealth. Here is Aristophanes interpretation.
Plutus was the son of Demeter, goddess of fruitfulness and Iasion (Britannica). When Plutus was young he was blinded by Zeus, king of the gods. He was blinded so that he would not one day just give wealth to the righteous men exclusively, but would give out the wealth at random (Theoi). He wanted to wealth to be distributed without any regard of prejudice (Theoi).
Along comes Chremylus who is convinced that Plutus’ eye sight can be restored. Chremylus is hoping that his eyesight can be restored

so that rather than the wealth being distributed at random, the wealth will be distributed to the virtuous (Mastin). He believes that this will make the world a better place.
Poverty tries to tell Chremylus that if he restores Plutus’ eyesight than there would be no more slaves and nothing would be luxurious. Everybody would be rich so there would be nothing special. Chremylus did not listen and restored Plutus’ vision anyways.
As Poverty had warned Chremylus, Plutus began to give money to the more deserving people and began taking money from the less deserving people. The world they knew had flipped upside down. This angered the Gods because they began to starve because those who normally sacrificed to the gods no longer could because their wealth was being taken away. The gods couldn’t do anything about it, so Chremylus proposes that he should replace Zeus as the king of gods and later Chremylus installs him into the temple in the place of Zeus.
That is the most common story but other stories such as Dante’s. He claims that is a demon of wealth and guards the wealth in the fourth circle of Hell. Different stories can range, but none are as well-known as Aristophanes.