Everybody Is Lying: The Truth About Hades And Persephone
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Published 2023-10-07
Episode 3 Of Keeping Up With The Greek Gods — The Sheep In Wolf's Clothing: Hades
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Notes
Mythology is a very tough puzzle to piece together, because, let's face it, these stories are thousands of years old. Now, with Greek Mythology, we are lucky because the Athenians were very keen on documenting everything, but because of their thirst for knowledge and education, they also produced many great storytellers, and with a lot of storytelling comes a lot of embellishing and regional differences, so, over time, we ended up with a bit of variety when it comes to Hades, but a whole lot of variety when it comes to Hades and Persephone. For the sake of this video — and all my videos — I try to streamline these tales as much as possible and leave out some details that might make the videos less fun.
So... is this accurate and well researched? Absolutely. Is this the only interpretation or way of telling you about Hades and Persephone? No, this is my way to tell the story.
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All Comments (21)
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wait so “ can only return to the world of the living for 3 months of every year “ but next line is “ mommy is happy whenever her persephone is back for 9months” and this is what gets me confused “goes back to the underworld for 3 months” like which is it?
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In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus exclaimed that he feared coming before Persephone more than her husband. Because while Hades is a very reasonable and just ruler, his wife, while she is not a bad person is still a slave to her emotions. This was why Sisyphus was able to escape the underworld the first time he died, because he was able to play on Persephone's sympathies, who then urged Hades to send him back to the world of the living. Basically if you ever have to stand before the thrones of the underworld, make sure its when Persephone is having a good day and maybe, just maybe Hades will go easy on you.
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The only thing “evil” about Hades is his obsession of seeing Zeus suffer in Tartarus for all the evil Zeus committed.
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Anubis, Hades and Hel has been wronged by Hollywood and Disney.
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As the quiet kid from kinder garden to college, I can deeply relate to how hades feels.
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Hades really took the oldest son responsibility to heart. It’s one of the funniest things to tell people.
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i love how overly sarcastic productions are really recognised, I love them so much and your channel
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It should also be noted that unlike his brothers, Hades was by all accounts very faithful to Persephone and wasn't a serial philanderer, unlike his brothers. There were stories where the nymphs Minthe and Leuce tried to seduce Hades, although the sources are dubious on whether Hades actually gave in to their advances. In fact Persephone turned them into trees when they tried putting the moves on her hubby.
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The fact you mentioned Persephone was known as 'Dread Persephone' made me so happy!!! I love that she got that title. She even got her own throne next to Hades. Made of iron. Persephone had the actual iron throne.
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I gotta say, Disney didnt "get stuff wrong" in the 1997 hercules movie, they just were not telling the myths of heracles. Disney has always taken inspiration from myths and fables and fairy tails and turned them into movies with very different storylines. It was never their intention to re-tell the trials of Heracles
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The Greek God I associate with evil has been Zeus for a long time, lol. I got told the story of Prometheus as a kid... Seeing Hercules in the theater was wild for me.
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Hades is one of most just god in Greek mythology.
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King of Sparkles and Aquaman I love that.
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Hades should think about giving his bros a trip to Tartarus
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Love these videos it’s so interesting to see the real side of Greek mythology
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Hades has always been one of my favorite Gods. Thanks for making him even better ❤
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Demeter must really hate Canadians then, because winter here in Canada last more than 3 months😂😂😂
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Hades was the Greek satan but he wasn't evil. Absolutely not even. He was one of the most moral of all the Greek gods plus he had a much higher role than being the ruler of the underworld only. He also decided where the Greek souls would go eventually.
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Your videos are so well made and very entertaining. I love Greek mythology, but I feel like there is very few (accurate) media to learn about it despite how popular it is. You are the blessing I’ve been searching for
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Actually the whole everyone thinking Persephone was the orginal ruler of the underworld was because she was mixed with the mesopotamian goddess Erishkagaal of the underworld Kur And she is cold-hearted AF
