An ancient Greek myth about Hades also mentions Narcissus flowers. According to this story, Zeus’s daughter Persephone was captured by the god of the underworld while in the Elysian Fields ...

Hades hatched a scheme to make Persephone his wife regardless of Demeter's refusal. One afternoon, while picking flowers in the valley, she came upon a most enchanting narcissus bloom. Stooping ...

This is a fitting match to the narcissus flower that, in the mythic portion of the production, seduces Kore to pluck it and leads her to the abyss. Persephone is one of a few people in the Greek ...

The myth of Hades’s theft of Persephone explains the death of fertility in winter; Huser (Skinnybones and the Wrinkle Queen) turns it into a Taming of the Shrew–style romance. At first ...