The cartoon was inspired by the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone and was used to explain seasons to younger viewers (via D23). Although The Goddess of Spring was the 48th entrant in Disney's ...

That honor goes to Persephone, the main character of a 1937 Silly Symphonies short that served as a sort of test run for Snow White. The film, "The Goddess of Spring," features Disney’s first ...

Greek mythology was co-opted by the Romans who used that pantheon because, as Disney will tell you ... Lord of the Dead and his bride Persephone. According to some later Roman versions of the ...

The focus of the poem is one of the most renowned narratives from Greek mythology - the rape of Persephone by Hades, the god of the Underworld, and the response of Demeter to her loss. It is a ...

where he watches offerings being made to the goddess Demeter, and that becomes the springboard for his first story… Part 2 Persephone is the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the Earth and of the ...