Hades abducted her to the Underworld ... In our eighth selection of facts about Greek gods, Hermes crafted the instrument ...

Hermes relates how one day she is out picking flowers when Hades, god of the underworld, comes to the upper world and sees her. Hades is entranced and takes Persephone down to his underground ...

It’s a pretty appropriate name given where H. hades lives; the trench extends down to the hadal zone, itself named after ...