Product Description: On a warm spring day, the beautiful young goddess Persephone is snatched from her home by Hades, god of the Underworld, and taken away to live underground and become his bride. Persephone's mother, Demeter, goddess of Earth, is so brokenhearted that she curses the land so nothing can grow — a permanent winter...read more

Product Description: Amy England's first Tupelo poetry collection was so distinctive and stimulating that she was said to have quite literally re-created the art form. In this new, extraordinary volume, she shows us that she was just getting started. Combining various mediums to depict and illuminate a unique vision that she experienced while visiting an archaeological excavation many years ago, England has rewritten the rules and fashioned a collection even more surprising...read more

'The history of the goddess in all her forms from the persepective of the Eleusinian Mysteries, their relation to the goddesses Demeter and Persephone, and their importance in the ancient Hellenic world'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: This work demonstrates the continued importance and relevance of the myth of Demeter and Persephone to today's society. The first three chapters provide a summary of the Homeric story and examine the myth from the perspectives of the mother and daughter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: The myth of Demeter and Persephone is regarded as the myth for women, as Oedipus is the myth for men, yet everyone reads its meaning differently. This diverse collection of writings approaches the myth from many perspectives--historical, literary, psychological, and ecological--and sheds light on the myth's ancient meaning as well as offering new insights into its contemporary implications...read more

A beautifully illustrated retelling of the ancient Greek myth about the seasons describes how Hades, god of the underworld, kidnaps Persephone, the daughter of the goddess Demeter, to be his wife.

A beautifully illustrated retelling of a Greek myth recounts how Persephone was abducted by Pluto to live in Hades as his queen and how her mother, Demeter, the harvest goddess, clothed Earth in winter until her daughter returned.

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

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.

Staging and costume suggestions supplement this Russian version of the Persephone myth in which the daughter of Frost and Wind is given permission to live on earth but is led by love to ignore her parents' warnings

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

When Persephone is kidnapped by King Pluto, her mother, the earth goddess Demeter, refuses to bless the fields until she is returned

Watercolor illustrations complement a modern translation of the narrative poem which offers a mythical explanation for the earth's seasons

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