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Have you ever thought of how the Greek Gods affected the Greeks on the mainland of Greece? Well, I will tell you about one goddess, Demeter the harvesting and planting goddess. Demeter had a daughter Persephone. Persephone went on a journey and reached a source of water that was actually a portal to the underworld. With that Persephone went in the underworld with Hades. This made Demeter mad and sad which made the earth go into something called winter which was where nothing grew. While Persephone was in the underworld she heard that you are not suppose to eat anything while you are in the underworld or you will have to stay but she ate three pomegranate seeds. That made it so she would have to come and stay in the underworld for three months …show more content…

This is shown when Demeter is sad and disappointed that Persephone went to the underworld. Demeter is a hardworking, courteous, and committed goddess. So Demeter is trying to find Persephone and doesn’t do her job as goddess. While Demeter is looking for her daughter, Persephone, something that happens to all the food, it doesn’t grow anymore! In the story Demeter in paragraph 14 and 15 it states, “I will go back to earth, said demeter, and i will not return until you send for me. Weeks passed. Then Zeus found his sleep being disturbed by the sound of lamentation. He looked down upon earth and saw a grievous sight. Nothing grew. The fields were blasted and parched. Trees were stripped of leaves, standing blighted, with the sun blazing down. The soil was hard and cracked, covered with the shriveled brown husks of wheat and corn and barley killed in the bud. And there was no green place anywhere. The people were starving; the cattle had nothing to eat; the game could find nothing and had fled.” So this is how Demeter affected the lives of Greeks negatively, she heard that her daughter went to the underworld with Hades and she went searching to find Persephone and while she was looking for her daughter, winter came and Greek lives were get treated negatively because they didn’t have any

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