demeter (greek deity)

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.

Presents a retelling of the Greek mythology story of why the seasons change: Demeter, goddess of harvest, becomes so sorrowful when her daughter, Persephone, is stolen by the god of the underworld, that she lets the snow pile up on the world, so that crops wither and die, and spring never comes.

When the Bramble family moves to a new home in northern England, they engage a woman for home help and become convinced that she is from a different time and place.

Hades, the god of the dead, falls in love with Persephone, the maiden of spring, and steals her from her mother Demeter to be his bride and queen of the underworld.

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.

A retelling of the myths in which Aphrodite and Demeter play major roles.

Retells the story of Demeter and Persephone from Greek mythology for a younger audience. Demeter searches for a way to stop her daughter Persephone from becoming the bride of Hades.

Retells the Greek myths in which Aphrodite, goddess of love and beauty, and Demeter, goddess of grain and agriculture, play major roles.

A graphic novel adaptation of the Greek myth in which the grief felt by Demeter over the loss of her beautiful daughter Persephone, who has been kidnapped by the god of the underworld, causes a permanent winter to fall over the land.

A retelling of the myth which was the ancient Greek explanation for the seasons.