Enjoy the glorious season of spring through the myth of Persephone and connect with the symbols and the sentiments. The myth of Persephone will bring you closer to nature, and your loved ones. A template is provided for this.The Myth of Persephone is about Earth, Seasons, and Motherly Love Posted on April 21st, 2021 Using their understanding of the seasons they should design the farm, decide what they will plant, where and when. Charge children with designing their own small arable farm to provide crops for the local community. A prompt sheet is provided to help them identify what information they should include. They should use books, the internet and, of course, their prior knowledge to prepare the presentation. This could be an oral presentation with props or, if you have access to animation software, it could take the form of a short film. While Ancient Greeks believed that Demeter’s emotions led to the changing of the seasons, these days we know different! Children are to prepare a presentation for another class on why seasons change. Write two diary entries for Demeter: one following the day that Persephone leaves for the underworld and one for the day she returns. We get a strong sense of Demeter’s emotions when Persephone leaves for the underworld and when she returns. Remind them to use powerful and persuasive language Hades is no pushover! Invite children to write a letter to Hades to persuade him to release Persephone. Invite children to produce a still life drawing or painting of the halved pomegranate for display. If this is not possible, use images from the web. If possible, have some real pomegranates for children to study. Can children now identify the lady and the item in her hand? Pomegranates have often featured in literature and art. Have any of the children seen this painting before? Do they know what the lady is holding? Don’t give anything away at this stage as you will discuss this further after watching the video. Show children an image of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s ‘Proserpine’ (an alternative name for Persephone). But they regrow with her joy, when Persephone returns in the spring. Demeter’s sadness as Persephone leaves for the Underworld makes the plants wither in the Autumn. Zeus decided that because Persephone had only eaten a tiny amount she could return to Earth for six months of the year.Īnd this is how the seasons began. So Hades demanded that she stay with him forever.
Persephone had eaten some seeds from a pomegranate. But she could only return if she had not eaten any food while in the Underworld. Zeus, chief of the gods, promised Demeter he would bring Persephone back. When Demeter found out that Hades had seized her daughter she became very sad and stopped caring about the harvest.
Hades pulled Persephone into his chariot and took her back to the Underworld. He saw Persephone and instantly fell in love with her. Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, the Goddess of the harvest, and lived with her mother on the Island of Sicily.Ī volcano on the island erupted and Hades emerged from his underworld kingdom.
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