Customer Reviews

Demeter & Persephone: Spring Held Hostage, a Greek Myth (Graphic Myths & Legends)

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I knew ahead of time what I was getting. It would only have so many pages, an d the artwork was good. But I felt that the storyline was lacking. There wasn't anything about how Hades and Persephone grew closer, not even one page. it just skips from the first day she is kidnapped to shortly before she eats the pomegranate seeds, and this story says she only ate 4 seeds, when the general consensus is that she ate six (fall and winter).

The artwork was enjoyable and a lot of effort clearly went into it, which makes me wonder why this piece of work didn't have 64 pages, as lots of special edition/deluxe issue comic books and graphic novels come in 64 or even 100-128 pages.

3.5/5 for a entertaining but brief read.

Although I haven't used it in the classroom, I suspect that its romance should be quite compelling to preadolescents and adolescents. Hades, who appears in this text friendlier than in other Graphic Legends (see Hercules or Perseus, for example), courts Persephone until he persuades her that he could be a good husband for her. As most of this collection, this is an excellent adaptation of this myth and could be used to teach reading strategies and language.