Editing Persephone (section)

== Modern reception ==
[[File:Egitto romano o tolemaico, busto di kore-persefone, in terracotta.jpg|thumb|Small Ptolemaic terracotta bust of Persephone, [[National Archaeological Museum of Athens]], Greece.]]
{{Main|Persephone in popular culture}}

Persephone also appears many times in popular culture. Modern retellings of the myth sometimes depict Persephone as at first unhappy with Hades abducting her, but eventually coming to appreciate her role as his queen after he began to treat her with respect, though she occasionally engages in affairs with mortals.<ref>{{Cite video |last=Zarka |first=Emily |date=April 26, 2022 |title=Persephone: Bringer of Life or Destruction? |publisher=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/persephone-bringer-of-life-or-destruction-vy3iox/|access-date=December 27, 2023}}</ref>  Featured in a variety of novels such as ''Persephone ''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15724908-persephone|title=Persephone (Daughters of Zeus, #1)|access-date=4 July 2012|archive-date=15 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120715011639/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15724908-persephone|url-status=live}}</ref> by Kaitlin Bevis, '' A Touch of Darkness'' by Scarlett St. Clair, ''Persephone's Orchard''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17790646-persephone-s-orchard |title=Persephone's Orchard |access-date=25 November 2016 |archive-date=20 August 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160820073206/http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17790646-persephone-s-orchard |url-status=live }}</ref> by Molly Ringle, ''The Goddess Test'' by Aimee Carter, ''The Goddess Letters'' by Carol Orlock, ''Abandon'' by Meg Cabot, ''Neon Gods'' by Katee Robert and ''[[Lore Olympus]]'' by Rachel Smythe, her story has also been treated by Suzanne Banay Santo in ''Persephone Under the Earth'' in the light of women's spirituality; portraying Persephone as a traumatized woman in a quest of power, transcending the role of the daughter, though ultimately returning to it as an awakened Queen.<ref>{{cite book|title=Persephone Under the Earth|publisher=Red Butterfly Publications|author=Santo, Suzanne Banay|year=2012|isbn=978-0-9880914-0-5}}</ref>