(Later in the book Persephone is roofied, however, so readers sensitive to depictions of sexual assault should steer clear.) Instead, Aphrodite has Eros - a flighty guy with a shopping addiction - get Persephone drunk and hide the passed-out girl in the backseat of Hades' sports car. 'You look like a relic.' When the nymph Minthe wants to manipulate Hades, she ghosts his texts Hades, meanwhile, ignores texts from Persephone because they're headed 'User Unknown.' Most importantly, Smythe's Hades doesn't kidnap Persephone at all. 'You can't wear that!' her friend Artemis tells her. The first time we see Persephone, she's planning to wear a toga-style robe to Zeus' big party. These gods play the same interpersonal games that dominate today's sexually frank, cell-phone-mediated social world.
These gods play the same interpersonal games that dominate today's sexually frank, cell-phone-mediated social world.īut Smythe's take on classic myth is anything but hidebound. Smythe's take on classic myth is anything but hidebound.
