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.

While in a field tending to her duties, Persephone is kidnapped by Hades, the king of the Underworld. While Persephone is held hostage in the Underworld, Demeter searches far and wide for her ...

The latest CD release from Persephone’s Bees, entitled “Notes from the Underworld,” features fairly consistent yet pleasing guitar riffs and drumbeats, along with singer and songwriter ...

Hermes relates how one day she is out picking flowers when Hades, god of the underworld, comes to the upper world and sees her. Hades is entranced and takes Persephone down to his underground ...

You can now get a first look video of Merle Dandridge as ‘Persephone’ performing ‘Living It Up on Top’ in Hadestown Broadway.

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.

At Leeds Art Gallery, the artist obliquely references his own diasporic family history whilst resisting the exploitation of identity ...