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The album Turbo Ocho by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers features a track titled Persephone [8] as a love song written by Hades to Persephone. The folk opera Hadestown based on the myth of Orpheus, Persephone is a main character. Ani DiFranco portrays Persephone in the 2010 concept album, while in the stage adaptation the role was originated by ...
Persephone's abduction by Hades [f] is mentioned briefly in Hesiod's Theogony, [39] and is told in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her mother Demeter was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades.
The comic is a modern retelling of the relationship between the Greek goddess and god Persephone and Hades. Originally published to Smythe's Tumblr in 2017, she began publishing it weekly on the platform Webtoon Discover in April 2017, relaunching it on Webtoon Canvas in March 2018, where the series concluded in June 2024 after three seasons ...
Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa (her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter). In protest of his act, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine ...
Hades concocted several schemes, including (but not limited to) stealing Apollo's sun while Hercules was on duty as an intern to inspire a vote of No Confidence in Zeus ("Hercules and the Apollo Mission"), teaming up with Poseidon to move the River Styx to Greece as a means to conquer the country ("Hercules and the River Styx"), attempting to ...
whom revered Persephone bore by the mouth of the Kokytos river upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus. In the guise of Plouton Zeus tricked Persephone and through wiley plots bedded her; a two-bodied specter sprang forth from Persephone's fury. This specter drives mortals to madness with her airy apparitions as she appears in weird shapes and ...
The Sword-and-sandal series (1957-1965) includes numerous films depicting Hercules that go by various titles depending by country of release. Below is a list (chronological order) that begins with the film's U.S.-release title, followed by the original Italian title and translation: [i]
A coin featuring the profile of Hera on one face and Zeus on the other, c. 210 AC. Roman conquerors of the Hellenic East allowed the incorporation of existing Greek mythological figures such as Zeus into their coinage in places like Phrygia, in order to "augment the fame" of the locality, while "creating a stronger civil identity" without "advertising" the imposition of Roman culture.