These notes are from Persephone's Fate, a story taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated by Tony Kline.
- This story is a bit hard to follow for me.
- I know that Persephone was raped/kidnapped by Dis (Hades)
- Ceres is now looking for her daughter, and seems to have found her and figured out the situation
- Now, this is where the pomegranate comes in! Persephone eats 7 seeds (sin?) from a tree.
- Ascalaphus saw it, and now that he saw her eat the pomegranate, and now she is no longer able to return
- Ascalaphus is working for hades? I believe?
- Maybe I can add something cool to his character
- Maybe he doesn't want persephone to leave, so he is sabotaging her chances to leave the underworld
- I'm honestly confused about what is happening in the story- why can't proserpine eat?
- Is that because of the gods?
- Anyway, he is turned into an owl, which acts has a omen of disaster
- Jupiter divides up the year, and now she has to spend half of the time in heaven, and half the time n the underworld
- It kind of implies that she is happy with this arrangement, but I have my doubts
- I kind of wanted to write Hades as a hero, but now I'm not sure about it. It sounds like what happened was pretty awful
- I don't think I can make a kidnapper be a hero
- However, it kinda wasn't his fault. He was struck by cupid.
- I want to understand more about this story. I wonder if I can find a little online video that will clear up the parts of the story I'm confused on
- There are just so many characters
- I really want to know more about the pomegranate
- Maybe P. ate the pom on purpose. Did she really want to leave?
- Maybe she wanted to stay and live with hades- enemies to lovers?
- I don't like that idea simply bc i don't want to glorify kidnapping/rape.
- This might be a hard one for me to retell
Image Info:
"Hades and Persephone"
Simone Pignoni
Found on: wikimedia
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