Part 1 Hermes begins with an introduction to himself and some of the other gods and goddesses ... the upper world and sees her. Hades is entranced and takes Persephone down to his underground ...
Their stories are unpicked and reinvented for a 2024 audience, and one story in particular that gets a whole new retelling is ...
It makes us look at these stories from Greek mythology with a new perspective. In the traditional narrative, Persephone is ...
Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, the Goddess of the harvest, and lived with her mother on the Island of Sicily. A volcano on the island erupted and Hades emerged from his underworld kingdom.
Ancient Greeks believed in supernatural causes for almost all events and attributed them to the goddess Tyche. The Romans ...
The play’s title is derived from Kore, "girl" in Greek, which was the goddess’s name before she was dragged to Hades and renamed “the destroyer of light” (Persephone). In the mythic layer ...
Students from the AHEPA Greek School in Melbourne perform the radio-edition of the ancient Greek myth of Persephone as part of the SBS Greek podcast series "Students and Children Perform Roles in ...
Hadestown currently stars Allison Russell as ‘Persephone,’ Jordan Fisher as ‘Orpheus,’ Maia Reficco as ‘Eurydice,’ Lillias White as ‘Hermes,’ and Phillip Boykin as ‘Hades.’ ...