Their stories are unpicked and reinvented for a 2024 audience, and one story in particular that gets a whole new retelling is the myth of Hades (David Thewlis) and Persephone (Rakie Ayola).

McKinley, an English and classics major, has a Surdna Foundation Undergraduate Research Fellowship Program grant* from Bowdoin to spend the summer exploring how the tale of Hades and Persephone has ...

When I was young, my mother used to tell me the ancient Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone at bedtime. Now that I am a mother myself, the story has come to haunt me in more ways than one ...