Persephone’s journey between the underworld and the earth transforms the seasons, where love, loss and the eternal cycle of ...

Reincarnation and afterlife was a tradition among the ancient Greeks. Writers expressed the view that the souls of the dead ...

The story of how Hades kidnapped Persephone, goddess of spring, is one of the most oft-told stories from Greek mythology. What's often forgotten is how, despite the initial trauma of Persephone's ...

Another theory is about the traditional myth of Persephone getting kidnapped by Hades and her life being divided between the ...

Their stories are unpicked and reinvented for a 2024 audience, and one story in particular that gets a whole new retelling is ...

Around Nov. 10, the Persephone Period begins in southern Michigan, causing vegetable plants to stop growing due to shortened ...

Hades is entranced and takes Persephone down to his underground kingdom to become his bride. When Demeter finds out what has happened she is inconsolable; she curses the Earth and the plants begin ...

Persephone is, indeed, making her way deep into the Underworld. For those unfamiliar with Greek myth, Persephone was the ...

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, the Goddess of the harvest, and lived with her mother on the Island of Sicily. A volcano on the island erupted and Hades emerged from his underworld kingdom ...

Persephone's mother Demeter had plenty of cause for anger when ... they still can convey a great deal of relevant meaning to today's listeners. "In ancient Greece, the myth had multiple simultaneous ...