The Abduction of Persephone // Hades + [ Jasmin ]

JASMIN = PERSEPHONE. K good. I do not own these movies or this song. The movies are Aladdin and Hercules, both copyrighted to Disney. The song is Spooky by Imogen Heap. Mkauh! So this vid is based of the Greek Myth of the abdction of the Greek goddess Persephone, by Hades. x 3 PLOT: She sees him from balcony on mount Olympus, as he came to talk to Zeus, but instead he sees her, and falls in love. But being Hades, living in the underworld surrounded by dead people, she tries to be uninterested, but has difficulty because she can't help his charm. And also Greek gods are eternally horny. xD Hades convinces her to join him for the evening, and during dinner, he gives her a fruit with twelve seeds inside, one for each month of the year. She eats half of it before realising what she's eating, and eats six of the seeds. In doing so she must spend six months out of every year with hades in the underworld. So, you know. Oh crap for Perseophone. xD In the real version of the story Persephone's mother Demeter, the goddess of harvest, was crushed by the six months away from her daughter, so the six months Persephone was away, nothing would grow, aka. winter. :D It's one of my favorite stories, if you haven't heard it, you should definitely look it up.^ ^ But yuuh. Comment, like? And enjoyye. ^ ^

Theseus' Rejection And The Abduction Of Helen Of Sparta

Theseus is said to have abducted the young Helen of Sparta, taken her to Aphidnai, in Attica, and then got themselves imprisoned in the Underworld. While they were there, Helen's brothers, Castor and Pollux, arrived in Athens demanding their sister's return; and when the Athenians said that they did not know where she was hidden, the twins prepared to assault the city. War was averted only when Akademos, having found out where Helen was being held, told her brothers, and they left with her. Perhaps not surprisingly, when Theseus had been set at liberty, returned to Athens and resumed the leadership of the state, he found that he had lost his former popularity.

Despite the legends narrated about him, Theseus is a semi-historical figure. To him was attributed the unification of the various townships of Attica into a single state. In commemoration of this the Panathenaic festival in honour of Athena was instituted.

A man named Menestheus put himself at the head of those who regretted that the union of Attica had robbed them of their tiny kingdoms, and felt that Theseus was treating them as subjects. Despairing of ever receiving the full support of the citizens, Theseus abandoned the city, and having cursed the Athenians from the village of Gargettos, he took ship for Skyros. There he had lands left him by his father, and enjoyed the friendship, or so he thought, of king Lycomedes. But he, jealous of Theseus' fame, led him up to the top of a high cliff on the pretext of showing him the extent of his lands, and pushed him over the edge.

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