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She finds out about what Apollo did to Persephone when she has a vision regarding the ordeal, and later confronts her about it. Wanting to help Persephone, Hera gets her son Hephaestus to hack into Apollo's smartphone and delete photos he took of Persephone during the rape. Hera in Lore Olympus is a feminist. [16]
The Rape of Persephone, or Abduction of Persephone, is a classical mythological subject in Western art, depicting the abduction of Persephone by Hades.In this context, the word Rape refers to the traditional translation of the Latin raptus ('seized' or 'carried off') which refers to bride kidnapping rather than the potential ensuing sexual violence.
Melinoë is the protagonist of the video game Hades II, developed and published by Supergiant Games. [17] [18] [19] In the game, Melinoë is the Princess of the Underworld and sister of Zagreus, the protagonist of the first game. She seeks to defeat Chronos with help from Hecate, the Olympian gods, and other figures from Greek mythology. [20 ...
Rhea-Demeter prophecies that Persephone will marry Apollo. This prophecy does not come true, however, as while weaving a dress, Persephone is abducted by Hades to be his bride. She becomes the mother of the Erinyes by Hades. [58] In Nonnus's Dionysiaca, the gods of Olympus were bewitched by Persephone's beauty and desired her. Nekyia ...
Persephone did not submit to Hades willingly, but was abducted by him while picking flowers in the fields of Nysa (her father, Zeus, had previously given Persephone to Hades, to be his wife, as is stated in the first lines of the Homeric Hymn to Demeter). In protest of his act, Demeter cast a curse on the land and there was a great famine ...
The Naiad nymph Minthe, daughter of the infernal river-god Cocytus, became concubine to Hades, the lord of the Underworld and god of the dead. [9] [10] In jealousy, his wife Persephone intervened and metamorphosed Minthe, in the words of Strabo's account, "into the garden mint, which some call hedyosmos (lit. 'sweet-smelling')".
A brief history of why the Targaryens can't seem to stop marrying each other — and a refresher on why it didn't turn out well for them in the end.
It may be a late addition to the Orpheus myths, as the latter cult-title suggests those attached to Persephone. The subject is among the most frequently retold of all Greek myths, being featured in numerous works of literature, operas, ballets, paintings, plays, musicals, and more recently, films and video games.