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Persephone Research Paper

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Persephone the goddess of the underworld, in my eyes is one of the most memorable love interest in a piece of fiction. I think that my fascination with her short and hardly unknown story has to do with how it affects us. In this story our seasons are explained and why in the winter and spring we can’t really grow fresh food.

Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and was kidnapped by Hades (Zeus and Demeter’s brother) Zeus was in on the kidnapping and even helped Hades decide when to do it. Demeter (the goddess of grain, agriculture and fertility) was so upset about losing her daughter that she threatened to make the earth barren forever and in the long run destroy all of humankind if her daughter was not returned to her. Demeter

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