Demeter And Hades Research Paper

The story of Demeter and Hades takes place in the Greek Deities and the underworld when “Hades, god of the underworld,” fell in love with Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter (Infoplease). Persephone was an innocent maiden that was abducted by her uncle Hades one day as she was collecting flowers. The reason Hades took her was because he was dazzled by her beauty, elegance, and charm so he abducted Persephone and disappeared into the depths of the underworld, the land of the dead, while Persephone's screams went unheard. Then Demeter came to get her daughter, but could not find a trace of Persephone and became distraught and desperate; Demeter searched for her daughter, yet couldn't find a trace of her beloved Persephone. As a result, “Demeter destroyed lands, crops, and livestock” due to the loss of her only child Persephone (Infoplease). Demeter also threatened to make the earth barren forever well as destroy all of humankind if she did not find
Demeter reluctantly agreed to the deal, and restored Earth's to its previous state and returned to Olympus with Persephone. Yet, when the time came for Persephone to return to the Underworld, “nothing [would] grow on earth” until Persephone would return months later (Shmoop Editorial Team). Therefore, the cycle that emerged out of the agreement was that every Spring, Demeter makes sure flowers blossom on the meadows and the mountains bloom to welcome home her loving daughter Persephone. While every Autumn, Demeter cries, the leaves fall and the crops come to an end as her daughter returns as Queen of the Underworld with Hades her uncle/husband. Then in the Spring, the cycle starts again. According to the story that's why we have the different