![]() Aphrodite herself go down to Hades to ask Persephone to give Adonis back. ![]() In Hadestown, loved by many Lore Olympus fans, Hades is similarly painted as a man who just got in over his head with ruling the underworld. spends twothirds of the year on Olympus and one third in the underworld. Nowadays, Hades has a new-found confidence. However, after meeting the effervescent Persephone, Hades's whole outlook drastically changes. His girlfriend was demeaning, he was lonely, and he was a societal outcast. Lore Olympus's One True Couple are climbing their way to a loving relationship through their own recognition of toxic relationships. In Lore Olympus, this is retold as Hades being a kind man who is simply wrapped up in the business of the underworld and needs to be brought out to the light. Hades began Lore Olympus in a bit of a rut. She says that finding true love is a journey like climbing the rungs of a ladder from the recognition of pretty people to pretty ideas. In Plato's dialogue about finding love, called the Symposium or "Drinking Party," Socrates tells a story about how he learned about the meaning of true love from a soothsayer named Diotima. RELATED: The 5 Most Underrated Characters in Lore Olympus (& The 5 Most Overrated) Hades and Hera have a different kind of affair, there’s an understanding, they like eachother but not in a romantic way, he even said she tries to make him feel better in her own way but they both know they’re not in Love with eachother. Smythe probably doesn't intend this, but part of the idea of sameness in her story is a big deal in Platonic philosophy called "assimilation to the divine" or homoitheosis ( Republic 10.613ff, Laws 4.716, and Theatetus, "Escape, Socrates says, "is to become like a God," 176b1.) Hades, the god of the underworld, is at a party for all the gods of Olympus, when one deity catches his. ![]() Smythe's Greek translations with an assist from a Twitter fan are not strictly good Attic Greek, but the sentiment in English succinctly captures the dynamic of Hades and Persephone's relationship. Greek mythology is retold through urban romance. ![]()
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