Homeric Hymn to Demeter

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Koertge makes all their narratives in the first person, making the text more relatable. He portrays Hades as the misunderstood shy younger brother of Zeus and Poseidon, however he makes it clear that he didn’t kidnap (or Goddess-nap) Persephone but just admired her from afar, as well as describing himself as the type of man "to show up at her mother’s house with a bouquet". Persephone in this case is her mother’s prisoner; never being allowed to stray too far out of her mother’s view due to the fact Demeter is a control freak. While, Demeter is deciphered as a psychopath; always needing to know the wear about of her daughter and never giving her the freedom to grow as a ‘young adult’. Koertge brakes away from the ancient Greeks ideals of how woman are treated and instead puts it into a modern view, in the idea of the daughter runs away with the bad boy all to spite her mother’s wishes. Though this is true, he leaves out the tiny part involving incest.

Both writers, Arthur and Koertge both bring up the arguments of universal physiological truths in both their works. Arthur more or less talks about truths and experiences of woman in the ancient world, and how life of course was not as simple as it now is. Yet she brings up the idea of the power of the mother daughter relationship, being that keeping their bond strong is a difficult task do to the notion of over protective mothers, and rebellious daughters trying to figure out who they were meant to be.