Hades and Persephone: The Love and Lovers of the King and Queen of the Underworld – Greek Mythology



Hades and Persephone: The Love and Lovers of the King and Queen of the Underworld – Greek Mythology – See U in History

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  1. Sure, Hades and Persephone cheated on each other. But it was only done with one person. Compared to other Greek couples and how they cheat on each other all the time. It's basically like Hades and Persephone never cheated on each at all. True romance, i say.

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  2. Something about the second story ending doesn't really makes sense.

    How would Hades not know that his wife would go back to the surface to meet his mother in the summer? Wasn't he the one that decided she was allowed to meet his mother half the year?

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  3. Thiiiis is a pretty cherry picked version of this story. It makes Hades seem so much worse than most of the more accepted versions tell it.
    Also. Eros and Cupid don't manipulate feelings of Love and Lust. They ARE the feelings of Love and Lust. It's why it's said by some that they are the strongest Gods on Olympus as almost no one, especially the head God, was immune to their powers. And, even the ones that are have to make an active effort to keep them away.
    Edit: Oh. Also, Kore/Persephone is not the goddess of Spring. Spring is just the time in which Persephone returns to Demeter, who makes things grow again. You could argue that makes her a tangential goddess, but no. Persephone is the Goddess of the Underworld.

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  4. People need to stop romanticing the stockholm syndrome. Since when falling for the one that kidnaps you is romantic. Face it. Persephone never loved Hades. She was kidnapped and was always trying to find excuses to avoid Hades. If you don't believe me read De proserpina Raptu.

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  5. I've read many Greek and Roman versions of the Persephone myth, but none have said that Hades locked Persephone in a room or prison. Instead, the myths speak of how Hades kept Persephone underworld in order to marry her, to which Hades had obtained consent from Zeus, Persephone's father.

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  6. In the original version, translated from old greek and written circa 600 bc has Zeus as responsible of allowing the arranged marriage, as opposed to kidnapping. And from what I remember, Dread Persephone was treated above all others, even Hades himself.

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  7. Wow. This minthe isn't that different from Her lore Olympus counterpart. Though unlike this version of Minthe, she displayed more of a toxic relationship with hades in lore Olympus and much like this version of her, she was turned into a plant but this was before Persephone became queen

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