persephone (greek deity)

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persephone (greek deity)

Pandora gets angry

2011
Mysterious sandstorms and frightening strangers are hindering Pandora and her friends' attempts to get to Persia and recover the fifth evil, rage, but they are helped by a cute Persian boy who leads Pandy and crew to the Garden of Jin where a genie is hiding their prize.

Persephone and the pomegranate

a myth from Greece
1993
Presents the Greek myth in which Demeter refuses to allow spring to appear until she has been reunited with her daughter Persephone, who has been abducted to the Underworld by Pluto.

Radiant darkness

2009
Persephone runs off to the Underworld with Hades, with whom she has fallen in love, but when her mother Demeter takes out her grief on thousands of peasants, Persephone agrees to come back once a year to visit her mother and to bring spring back to Earth.

The story of Persephone

1973
A retelling of the Greek myth in which Persephone returns from the underworld each year to bring spring to the earth.

Persephone

1994
Retells the Greek myth in which Persephone must spend six months out of every year below the Earth in Hades.

Snow Maiden

1979
A Russian retelling of the Greek myth of Persephone.

The pomegranate seeds

a classic Greek myth
1995
Retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's adaptation of the Greek myth of the origin of the seasons, in which Persephone is kidnapped by her uncle, King Hades, and her mother, Demeter, curses the earth with barrenness until her daughter is returned.

The Twilight Prisoner

2009
In an effort to impress a female classmate, high school sophomore Jack Perdu endangers both of their lives by taking her to New York City's Underworld, where those who died in New York reside until they are ready to move on.

The girl games

2012
Artemis, Athena, Aphrodite, and Persephone organize a girls-only Olympic Games but have trouble when the competing girls can't get along.

Phone Home, Persephone!

2012
In this modern version of the Greek myth, Persephone asks Hades for a ride to escape her overprotective mother, sneaks into the Underworld, and refuses to leave.

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