Someday, when I open a bookstore and the big bucks roll in, I’ll display titles in narrow categories, ensuring no one finds anything and has to wander. This summer survey will be my trial run.

Before seeing a stunning youth production of Hadestown at Corbett Prep’s Farish Speakeasy, I ran into a friend standing in line.  “Hadestown is my all-time favorite musical, “ she told me.

join the dead Nightsisters, or return to the land of the living. She can only return by giving up her heart’s desire (Vos), and she does. So, Tales of the Underworld doesn’t retcon Dark ...

According to myth, this is the span of time time that Persephone, the queen of the underworld would leave her husband/captor Hades/Pluto and return to the land of the living, signaling to her ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. “It’s a sad song, but we sing it anyway.” That’s how Hermes, the kind, encouraging, silver-suited narrator of Hadestown, the ...

In Greek mythology, Charon is believed to be the ferryman who takes dead souls across the river Styx into the land of the dead ... as a payment to Charon for safely transporting souls to the ...

Yet, as king of the Underworld, he is shackled to his throne, serving as the caretaker of souls, and preventing them from returning to the land ... and dead. Zeus, the king of the gods, seeing the ...

Zeus sends Hermes to the underworld to bargain with Hades for Persephone’s return. But as Hermes arrives, Hades tricks Persephone into eating pomegranate seeds. According to Greek mythology, anyone ...

Credit: Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons The infernal rivers of Greek mythology, ruled by Hades, the god of the dead and king of the underworld ... necromancy ...

That connection between birds and dead souls seems to have then hopped over to Greece: Writing in the 5th century BCE, the playwright Euripides described the Sirens as at the beck and call of ...

With Persephone leaning ... they had both crossed into the land of the living—but should he break this one condition, Eurydice would forever remain in the underworld, where few of the living ...

In the last two decades, even as it received scant attention in the Northern Hemisphere, the Primeiro Comando da Capital — First Capital Command — has remade South America’s underworld and ...