In the midst of the harshness of winter, many can’t help but remember the original myth of Persephone and Hades. However, many romantic retellings villainize or dismiss Demeter’s grief as a mother.

The story of how Hades kidnapped Persephone, goddess of spring, is one of the most oft-told stories from Greek mythology.

It makes us look at these stories from Greek mythology with a new perspective. In the traditional narrative, Persephone is ...

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.

where he watches offerings being made to the goddess Demeter, and that becomes the springboard for his first story… Part 2 Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the Earth and of the ...

As I write these lines, I feel the warm promise of spring in my heart. However, I don’t think that way because of a date on ...

ALISTRATI, Greece: Persephone is a tour guide in Greece, but perhaps not the type people are used to. Billed as the world’s first robot tour guide inside a cave, Persephone has been welcoming ...

Wendy Rule's new double CD bears the name of the mythic queen of the Underworld. Over 24 tracks singer-songwriter Wendy Rule takes the audience through a journey over the concepts of darkness ...