Hades is entranced and takes Persephone down to his underground kingdom to become his bride. When Demeter finds out what has happened she is inconsolable; she curses the Earth and the plants begin ...

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The story of how Hades kidnapped Persephone, goddess of spring, is one of the most oft-told stories from Greek mythology.

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.

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.

Persephone Books will publish "a forgotten literary masterpiece", Crooked Cross by Sally Carson, in time for the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, accompanied by a major PR ...

In his song, Orpheus tells the story of Hades (Nickolaus Colón) and Persephone (Namisa Mdlalose Bizana). Persephone then arrives in the world above and celebrates summer, but soon Hades comes to ...

The genre-defying musical tells two mythic love stories – that of Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone – with both on a journey to the underworld and back. A live in ...