You may think you know the ancient Greek tale of Hades and Persephone. But the story's been around for thousands of years, and the way it's changed and been perceived over time is like a ...

Persephone is being shopped at the American Film Market. Pixomondo Studios is co-producing with FutureDude and Evolutionary. Anne Marie Gillen, John Adams and Diane Shorthouse are producing.

The show intertwines the Greek myths of young lovers Orpheus and Eurydice with god of the underworld Hades and his wife, Persephone. But Symons hasn't seen this production yet.

In ancient tellings, Hades steals young Persephone away from her mother, Demeter. Ovid, writing in Latin, describe the kidnapping as a rapio, for ravished or carried away. And rapio, McKinley ...