HADES & PERSEPHONE "Persephone caught the eye of Hades, god of the underworld. In one moment she was swallowed up in the ground and taken in Hades' rush of love, cursed to forever be caught between the land of the living and the world of the dead." –Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book 5 ....... The mating of Hades And Persephone is such a primal story, filled with conquest, hunger, desperation, and love … Original : Frederic Leighton