#perephone

[phantombookworm]

Someone told me it was mer-may and I wanted to doodle persephone from LO.

[bapbtswhat]

Survey for my DIS (Lore Olympus)

Hi everyone! My name is Christie and I am a third year student at the University of Bristol (in the UK). I study classical studies and am currently working towards writing my final dissertation. My focus is on the implications of feminist and/or modern retellings of classical myth. I have taken a particular interest in LO (despite being a fan/reader for some time) as an area of exploration within these themes and created a survey to better understand Lore Olympus readers in relation to a few pathways I can take my research.

I would really appreciate any responses that could go towards my research. The survey is completely anonymous and should only take about 5-10 minutes to take (unless you want to write more, which by all means please do!). Thank you for reading my waffle, the survey is linked below :heart:

Persephone Myth Survey (feminism and modern receptions of classical myth).

Welcome fans/readers of Lore Olympus! I appreciate your clicking on my survey, please react to the following statements/questions and give y

[obsessions-pod]

My Top 5 Greek Myths, In No Particular Order

The story of Andromeda. So, as a little kid, I was always fascinated by stars, but I really struggled to identify constellations in the actual night sky. I loved the planetarium show and begged to go every time we went to the science museum in OKC, and when I found out there was a princess with a constellation named after her that had a whole GALAXY inside it? I was so obsessed. I googled the name and learned everything I could understand, which at 9 turned out to mostly be the story of Andromeda. Andromeda's mom Queen Cassiopeia pisses off the gods by being really vain. To knock her down a peg, the gods decide that Cassiopeia should sacrifice he daughter Andromeda to the Hydra. She's chained to a rock in the ocean, when suddenly Perseus rides in on his Pegasus to save her, and take her far away from her weird family.

The myth of Cassandra. I don't know what it is about the concept of a woman burdened with truth in a world of unbelief.... Oh wait....

Persephone, as a mythological figure. I think her myth is actually quite tragic, though in the end she becomes incredibly powerful. However, I don't think we're supposed to find this power aspirational. While she is both goddess of spring and death, my personal interpretation, particularly as someone with chronic illness, has generally been that a death/rebirth cycle godhood might come with some sort of physically painful cost.

Artemis, as a mythological figure. I like the idea of an immortal feral thirteen-year-old girl roaming the forests of Europe armed with her bow and an army of tween girls. Rick Riordan nailed that interpretation of her, I think.

The Fates. I love the concept of the Fates. I love the idea of the thread of life, the idea that we may be individually different but could be woven into something greater, and that we don't get to decide how long our lives are, so we should make the most of them.

Looking forward to seeing the movie! What are your favorite Greek myths?

[melancholicreaper]

Hades: Persephone I wasn't lying when I said I would burn this world for you.

Persephone: That's what I'm afraid of of.

[nenes-art]

#drawthisinyourstyle by @usedbandaid, if you don't know Lore Olympus I higly suggest you go read it. The art is amazing and the plot is really interesting, I'd.love to say more but I am in no position to spoiler something you have to read 😈 #loreolympus #hades #perephone #art #artist #draw #drawing #comic #webcomic #digitalart #digital #procreate #color https://www.instagram.com/p/BuIdTvNl7ZD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fuspqtxuc3hb

[thehydraden]

This was not to say, however, that she did not long, at times, for some greater change, that she did not experience some of those exceptional moments when one thirsts for something other than what is, and when one thirsts for something other than what is, and when those who, through lack of energy or imagination, are unable to generate any motive power in themselves, cry out, as the clock strikes or the postman knocks, for something new, even if it is worse, some emotion, some sorrow; when the heartstrings, which contentment had silenced, like a harp laid by, year to be plucked and sounded again by some hand, however rough, even if it should break them; when the will, which has with such difficulty won the right to indulge without let or hindrance in its own desires and owes, would gladly fling the reins into the hands of imperious circumstance, however cruel.

Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way: In Search of Lost Time Vol. 1 

[eosphorusss]

modern athens au where persephone and demeter are sisters is what i breathe for