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Greek mythology purists may not immediately recognize Amber Gray’s take on Persephone. She plays the wife of Hades, God of the Underworld, in the Tony-nominated musical “Hadestown,” bringing ...
Lore Olympus, the three-time consecutive Eisner Award-winning comic by Rachel Smythe, is a modernized take on the classic Greek myth of Hades and Persephone.Lore Olymppus takes the myth that is ...
McKinley, an English and classics major, has a Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program grant* from Bowdoin to spend the summer exploring how the tale of Hades and Persephone has ...
Rachel Smythe's smash hit webcomic, out now in graphic novel form, transports the follies of the Greek pantheon — particularly Hades and Persephone — to a modern setting of suits and sports cars.
Just a reminder Hades is the brother of Zeus and therefore technically Persephone's uncle. After discovering her daughter had been taken, Demeter became so unconcerned with the world's harvest ...
In Greek mythology, Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the goddess of harvest. One day, Hades, god of the underworld, saw Persephone picking flowers. He was captivated by her beauty an… ...
Just a reminder Hades is the brother of Zeus and therefore technically Persephone's uncle. After discovering her daughter had been taken, Demeter became so unconcerned with the world's harvest ...
Like many Greek myths, the story of Persephone’s descent into the realm of Hades, and her emergence from it, has resonances in contemporary arts, most especially the notion of death and rebirth.
Perhaps the story of Hades and Persephone is being used to foreshadow what will happen at the end of The White Lotus Season 2. That’s what one fan suggested in a Reddit thread discussing ...
Australian pop musician Betty Who and Tony nominee Phillip Boykin are set to take over the leading roles of Persephone and Hades, respectively, in the hit musical, Hadestown, starting Sept. 5.
Watch Jean Daniel Brousse and Anna-Kaye Gayle discuss playing Hades and Persephone in Lost Dog's Ruination, now running through 4 January, in the video here.