In Defense of Hades: A Closing Argument

 By Sarah-Scott Brett, Grade 9, Riverside High School, NC
The "trial of the century" in ancient Greece...God vs. Goddess: It was the trial of eternity.
Genre  Myth   Topic  Myth, Family, Crime, Love, Conflict

Hades's defense attorney tells Hades's side of the story of his abduction of Persephone. The attorney claims that Persephone was in love with Hades and went with him of her own free will and in defiance of her mother, Demeter.

ID 29357   Published in Merlyn's Pen Volume 8, Issue 2  

Also appears in these Merlyn's Pen publications:

Writing Tall: New Fables, Myths, and Tall Tales; Eighth Grade: Stories of Friendship, Passage, and Discovery

Has been reprinted and/or translated in these countries:

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Turkey

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