How Lore Olympus Makes the Persephone Myth Worse: Final Mix
Happy New Year and happy Black History Month! Here’s my first video of the year!
Time stamps:
0:00 Content Warning/Why I Remade This Video
1:33 True Intro
3:03 Out With the Old and in With the New
18:07 The Elephant(s) in the Room
27:27 Demeter’s Demonization
37:01 Krokos/Withy and Persephone’s Other Female Friendships
48:13 Persephone’s Lack of Sexual Agency
58:46 Persephone’s Assault
1:06:06 Hades is (Not) a Good Guy
1:24:16 Lore Olympus, Modern Society and You (and Me)
1:30:19 Music Credits
Citations:
Menz, Grendel (grendelmenz). “A comic about Persephone from two years ago.” 12 Nov. 2020,
“Homeric Hymn to Demeter.” University of Houston, translated by Gregory Nagy, ~cldue/texts/
“INTRODUCTION.” The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation, Commentary, and Interpretive Essays, edited by Helene P. Foley, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 77-81.
“Gods’School / The Olympian gods Episode 2.” Uploaded by Gods’ School: The Olympian Gods, 5 Dec, 2019,
Riordan, Rick. “The Last Olympian.” Scholastic Inc., 2009.
Smythe, Rachel. Lore Olympus. Webtoon, 2018,
Linda Sejic. Punderworld. Webtoon, 2019,
First original Lore Olympus video:
Follow up Lore Olympus video: