I reblogged this post [cw for rape] and added:

ae;lkdf there’s this “cruel little boy” who reports Proserpina eating the pomegranate, so she can’t go home. She moans, then turns him into a screech owl.

colorwheels14 responded to this post:

I get the sense that tumblr is in love with the modern reinterpretations, rather than the Roman version.

I replied:

I’m not sure, tbh—well, they’re not usually thinking of the Roman version but the Greek versions and claiming that Persephone actually consented/wanted to go/something or other, but I don’t think it’s exclusively modern reinterpretations.

heget said:

little me reading picture books of mythology loved this myth, then hermes’s birth and theft of cattle, and a distant third was orphesus and euridice

I replied:

Little me mostly felt sorry for Demeter/Ceres :(

(But my faves were always “anything with Athena in it,” lol.)