Ancient Greek Stories

Ancient Greek Stories is an American adult animated fantasy anthology television series created by Ryan Murphy. The series would follow a certain story from Greek mythology and re-tell it using celebrities to portray the various gods, goddesses and other individuals from Greek mythology.
== Cast ==
*Mena Suvari as Persephone
*J.K. Simmons as Zeus
*[] as Hades
*Michael Chiklis
*Patricia Arquette as Hera
*Sarah Paulson
*Mandy Patinkin as Prometheus
*[] as Narcissus
*Zoe Kazan as Pandora
*Zach Galifianakis as Hermes
*Hugh Dancy as Orpheus
*Jessica Chastain as Medusa
*[] as Hercules
*[] as Icarus
*[] as Daedalus
*Claire Danes
*Harvey Fierstein
*John Krasinski as Oedipus
*Michelle Williams as Eurydice
*Jane Seymour as Demeter
== Episodes ==
#	Title 	Description 	Air Date
1	The Abduction of Persephone	Persephone (Mena Suvari) was the daughter of Demeter (Jane Seymour) and Zeus (J.K. Simmons). As Persephone grew, so did her beauty. When Hades, the god of the Underworld, saw her, he immediately fell in love with her and decided to abduct her. According to the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, one sunny day the young Persephone was gathering flowers in a field, accompanied by her close friends, the Ocean Nymphs. The carefree Persephone moved away from her companions in search of the most beautiful flower. When she reached out to pluck a wondrous narcissus, Earth yawned open and Hades appeared in his golden chariot and snatched her away to the Underworld while she was in tears. Demeter was looking in vain for her daughter day and night. The land and crops of the earth began to wither. After a while, the Sun, looking at everything from the sky, felt sorry for the goddess and told her what happened. Demeter went to Zeus and demanded that Persephone be returned, or else she would not let the earth blossom again.Zeus sent the Messenger God, Hermes, to Hades with the command to release Persephone. Before returning her to Hermes, Hades forced Persephone to eat six pomegranate seeds. Hades knew that if someone ate food in the Underworld, they could never really escape the world of the dead. Persephone was shortly after reunited with her mother. However, Demeter was furious when she heard about the pomegranate seeds. Zeus then proposed a compromise: for every seed Persephone had eaten, she would spend a month with Hades. Demeter accepted Zeus’ proposal. Thus, Persephone would travel to the Underworld every six months during which time Demeter would mourn and the earth with her. But after six months, Persephone would return to her and Demeter would be happy again and the earth would blossom once again.	
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