As time went on, Persephone fell in love with Hades and they built an empire which they ruled together as equals. She would become the young, naïve daughter when she descended on earth and rise to the position of the fearsome Queen of the Dead when she ruled alongside her husband.
Persephone didn't love Hades when they first met
While visiting the upper world Hades spotted the young and beautiful Persephone picking flowers in a meadow and was immediately entranced by her. Hades then snatched Persephone from the earth and dragged her into the underworld with him.
To understand, you must know that there are many versions of the myth of Persephone. One is that she never loved him, and another is that she always has. But the most popular versions in Ancient Greece was that she learned to love Hades, but hated him at first.
Hades: The Most Loyal Greek God
Whilst Zeus and Poseidon – Hades' brothers – are widely known for their affairs, Hades remained loyal to Persephone.
Aphrodite makes Hades fall in love with Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the crops. He snatches her while she is picking flowers in a meadow with a nymph and takes her down to the Underworld.
Hades, god of the Underworld, fell in love with Persephone and wanted her as his bride. His brother Zeus consented to the marriage—or at least refused to oppose it. Yet he warned Hades that Demeter would never approve this coupling, for she would not want her daughter spirited off to a sunless world.
Persephone slipped beneath the Earth and Hades stole her to the Underworld where he made her his wife. The myth says that Persephone was very unhappy, but after much time, she came to love the cold-blooded Hades and lived happily with him.
Did Hades ever cheat on Persephone? Looking into the myths about it, there were two other women than Persephone but going by the stories, he never cheated on her.
Some Greeks feared her even more than Hades, reportedly using her name to curse enemies. She was in no way weak and was one of the few who personified duality by being able to hold the roles Queen of the Underworld and a Spring Goddess. Part of that was due to Hades supporting her in both roles.
Sometime during her marriage, presumably in retaliation, Hera started an on and off affair with Hades that ended around the "80s." It is unknown if Zeus was ever aware of the affair.
Adonis was an exceedingly beautiful mortal man with whom Persephone fell in love. After he was born, Aphrodite entrusted him to Persephone to raise.
Persephone was ruthless to those who had wronged her
In the myth of Adonis, both Persephone and Aphrodite had fallen in love with the mortal man. Zeus order was to split his time between the two goddesses, but when Adonis decided that he did not wish to return to the Underworld, Persephone sent a wild boar to kill him.
However, it is in most implied that Persephone “grew a liking” for Hades, and I think whilst he was in almost every interpretation creepy and unjustified to varying degrees, their relationship never exhibits symptoms of Stockholm syndrome.
Because she ate fruit from the underworld she was now tied to the underworld and to Hades. Zeus was forced to make a compromise between Demeter and Hades in their claims to Persephone. He arranged a plan for Persephone to spend four months with Hades as his queen, one for every seed of the pomegranate she had eaten.
Persephone fled from the Underworld after the supposed stillborn birth of her son with Hades. This was then explained as apparently, the Fates prophecized that Hades would never bear an heir. It was because of this prophecy that Zagreus was doomed from his birth.
Persephone's return to the underworld each year represents the death and shriveling of life that accompanies the arrival of the cold. The story of Persephone and Hades is an allegory for the cycle of life and death.
Aphrodite was the most beautiful of all the Goddesses. Aphrodite was the most beautiful of all the Goddesses and there are many tales of how she could encourage both Gods and humans to fall in love with her.
Although at first Persephone was very unhappy in the Underworld, in time she came to love Hades and live happily with him.
Zeus gave his consent for Hades to marry his daughter, but because he believed that Demeter would not approve of the match, he told Hades to abduct Persephone and take her to his realm in the Underworld.
The story that Persephone spent four months of each year in the underworld was no doubt meant to account for the barren appearance of Greek fields in full summer—after harvest, before their revival in the autumn rains, when they are plowed and sown.
In Ovid's famous text Metamorphosis, Hades has an affair with a young Nymph named Minthe. Persephone, now in her later years, was so incensed with jealousy that she turned Minthe into a mint plant.
ZEUS LOVES : PERSEPHONE. In the Orphic myths, the maiden goddess Persephone was seduced by Zeus in the guise of a serpent. She bore him a son, the godling Zagreus, who, when Zeus placed him upon the throne of heaven, was attacked and dismembered by the Titanes.
In her anger at her daughter's loss Demeter laid a curse on the world that caused plants to wither and die, the land became desolate. Zeus became alarmed and sought Persephone's return. However, because she had eaten while in the underworld Hades had a claim on her.
Who were Hades and Persephone's children? Persephone and Hades had two children; one daughter, Melinoë,and one son, Zagreus. Melinoë became the goddess of nightmares and madness. Zagreus was a minor Greek god.
He's 2000 years old canonically and Persephone is 19. Barely an adult.