After all, he was her brother and Persephone's uncle! But then again, Demeter conceived Persephone with Zeus, another brother ...

When Demeter found out that Hades had seized her daughter she became very sad and stopped caring about the harvest. All the plants began to wither and die. Zeus, chief of the gods, promised ...

Unlike many of his siblings, such as Zeus or Demeter, Hades had no widespread cult ... Ovid (1st century BCE) gave a brief mention to this story in Book X of his Metamorphoses, when Venus ...

Demeter visits her brother Zeus. Persephone eats the pomegranate seeds. Persephone is allowed to return to Demeter for six months of the year, but must stay with Hades for the other six.