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