PersephoneBy: Katie Martin, Camille Howerton,

Tyler Segraves, Matt Ongstad

Main Charaters • Hades• Persephone• Zeuz• Demeter

Demeter•  Demeter, is the goddess

of the crops and harvest.  •  Distraught when she cold

not find her daughter, Demeter wandered over the face of the earth trying to find out what had happened to her.

•  She is known as the motherly figure of the goddeses.

   Hades 

• Hades, son of Cronus and Rhea received the Underworld for his realm, when his brother gods, Zeus  and Poseidian received dominion of the sky and sea. Hades is the enemy of all life, gods, and men. Since nothing will sway him, he is rarely worshiped.

Zeus  • Zeus is the father of

Persephone. • Zeus made a deceving

plan with Hades(the god of the underworld) and helped Hades abduct Persephone.

• Zeus tryed to save Persephone, but because she ate the fruit she has to go to the underworld once a year.

Per                Persephone

  •  Persephone is the goddess of the underworld in Greek mythology.

 • She was one day picking

flowers when Hades from the underworld abducted Persephone and raped her.

Persephone playing with her friend as Zeus watches over them

Persephone picking the flower that changed her life 

Hades, whisking Persephone off her feet because he is in love with her.

Demeter looking for Persephone

Demeter burning the village child

Persephone happy with being the queen of the underworld.

Persephone eating the seed's that Hades gave her

Persephone not happy about leaving the underworld

Persephone finally is in love with Hades back in the underworld

Man vs. Metaphysical

• Zeus peered down on Persephone from the sky above. • Hades, god of the underworld, used his majestic powers to

capture Persephone into the underworld. •   Hades wanted to explain his actions to sweet Persephone.

 •  Demeter wanted to thank the family for their kindness. So

she attempted to offer the child the gift of imortality.•  Zeus sent his messnger Hermes to find Persephone• In order for Persephone to come back to earth she had to be

as pure as she was when she was abducted.

MMan vs. Metiphysical lesson

• The lesson is that god's whether they are good or bad have a lot of power. In this case they are very selfish and use it to their ultimate advantage.

Cosmological Myths(Man vs. Nature)

• On earth everything is ripe and blooming• Persephone above ground, spring

and summer. Underground fall and winter• Demeter waits for Persephone to come

 around again in the spring and summer, thats when life comes again• Persephone enjoys the time she has,

knowing that time will run out     

Cosmological Lessons

• Persephone and Demeter are dependable on eachother with time.  • Earth is dependable on Persephone,

there are two seasons to stock upon food for the winter.  • Enjoy what you can, there is

 only little time. Everything changes   

Sociological  man vs. Man)

      Strong relationship with: Demter, Zeus, Hades, and friends.  Saw a flower that caught her eyes attention, this was the flower that her father Zeus wanted her to see.   Persephone was lost; her mother had such strong love for her that she went out searching for her.    Hades and Persephone fall in love, but she would rather be with her mother and father.

Sociological  man vs. Man)

    Demeter while searching for her daughter is taken in by a family and soon they grow to love her.    Persephone took on the role of the Underworld Queen, but wanted to be with her family    Hades respects her wishes and lets her go back to her family.    Zeus send's his daughter back to Hades and she learns to help guide people in their life, in the Underground World as their Queen.

Sociological Lesson

           It's important to have people in your life that love and care about you. Having good relationships with these people will only benefit your life.    By having special people in your life will only make all the changes you go through in life seem a little easier to deal with.• At first you may not like change in your life, but if

you give it some time your thoughts may be changed.

Man Vs. Self (Pyschological)

• In the myth, Persephone, the characters had had many battles within themselves.

 • Persephone's mom, Demeter, had struggled throughout the

whole story.  • Demeter had spun into a great depression and seemed to

forget about her duties as Goddess of Grain and Growth when Persephone went missing halfway through the story.  

 • She was so sad that she forgot all about her duties and just

watched the plants die. 

           Man vs. Self (Continued)

• Demeter was so depressed and robbed of all her vital energy that she appeared an old, wrinkly women to the naked eye.

 • She wandered the Earth searching every where

for Persephone. • In one version of the myth Persephone struggles with herself

about whether or not she should eat fruit from the underworld. • She eventually gave in and had to return to the underworld for

a season each year.  

Man Vs. Self- The lesson

• The lesson for Man Vs. Self is to always keep your family close. Family is an important element to have for life.

 • You never know what can happen at any point in time.

Always watch what you are doing and who you hang around with.

 • Sometimes you can't always get what you want. There are

times in some peoples lifes when they have to adapt to their surroundings because not everything will work out in the way you wish it would.

Allusions of Art 

Both Pictures are a part of the Pergamon Musuem in Berlin

Allusions of Music

Persehpone By: Third Eye Blind  

Allusions of Literature

• The Book  Persephone Rises by Margot Louis• Becoming a spirit• Myththology trends of goddesses • Analyazes all stories of Persephone

  

         Allusions of Pop Culture

Beauty and the Beast is adapted from Persephone. The relationship of Bell and the Beast came from the idea of Persephone and Hades relationship.