Lies You Believe About Hades And Persephone



You may think you know the ancient Greek tale of Hades and Persephone. But the story’s been around for thousands of years, and the way it’s changed and been perceived over time is like a mythological game of telephone.

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The myth you (maybe) know | 0:00
Consider the context | 1:44
Seasonal depression | 2:57
An unusual arrangement | 3:47
Loveless marriages | 5:18
The opposite of steamy | 6:16
Things used to be… different | 7:27

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10 thoughts on “Lies You Believe About Hades And Persephone”

  1. Ancient Myths on Greece, Roman and more ancient societies involved a notion of love being a factor though 😉 and not always a union based off some other mutual concept. The variations of those myths might be Modern interpretations but it could be based off what The original story actually was since there are signs of it 🥰

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  2. As an author, I feel like the way this guy is portraying modern writers doing re-tellings as misconstruing, straight up lying about, or perverting the original myth is really ridiculous. Taking an old story and changing it up or telling it from a new perspective is how art works, how it's always worked. Every culture throughout history, including the Greeks, took stories from older generations and changed them to fit the message they wanted to convey, current story trends, politics, and the audience culture. Even older stories depicted Persephone alone as the god of the underworld, sometimes attributed the father of her children to be Hades and sometimes Zeus (her own father), or insinuated that Hades and Zeus were the same god. It was only later authors who changed or added things on that made the surviving versions we have today. Acting like rewriting it as a love story or to give Persephone more agency is somehow disrespectful to the original is a strange stance to take.

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  3. This was an interesting take on the story. Many years ago when I took mythology in school we were taught that the tale was their way to explain winter and the end of the growing season. Each seed she consumed was time she had to stay with Hades and her Mother was so distraught that she froze the world and thus ended the growing season until her daughter returned

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  4. Actually laughing over the 'uncle' thing … I mean, Zeus and Hera are brother and sister as well as husband and wife. Kids erupt from body parts among the gods. And how do I find the uncle thing disturbing when the Ptolemies were brother/sister/father/daughter marriages all over the place. (and possibly mother/son, but not as clear on that) <laughter> this is history. And Greek history. Women had no autonomy and, as pointed out, marriage was a business deal for anyone not enslaved … may have been for them as well. Nice presentation.

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