Persephone As A Tragic Hero In Homer's Odyssey

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Gaius, a young boy, that called himself a detective wanted to solve every mystery there was to solve. He was about the age of eight when the Greek goddess of harvest went missing. He was very curious about this sort of thing because gods and goddesses never get kidnapped because the kidnapper will get caught and killed within minutes or a very short amount of time, so naturally he was very confused about why Persephone was not back in her throne at Olympus the next morning.
Gaius’ favorite goddess is Persephone since his dad was a farmer, so he was immediately worried, but didn’t think about it much because he assumed that Zeus would take care of it. Since Persephone is the goddess of harvest, in her absence they would be on a crop drought. Also considering, no one thought that she would be gone for long.
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Gaius all of a sudden went pale white and felt weak.

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“My name is Gaius, I-I I live in a small village outside of R -Rome,” he said trembling. Zeus was not pleased.
“Yes, we do know where Persephone is, but we can’t tell anyone,” Zeus booms, “so move on, village boy.”
“Well if you won’t tell us where she is, then I will have to find her myself,” and with that Gaius left and it was rather abrupt. That left the gods and goddesses sort of shocked, he was there, then he was gone. After, they went about their business, however Zeus and Demeter still seemed worried.
Gaius decided to go on with his plan, but was very discouraged, not completely. He tried to look for her but he had no idea where to start. Then, all of a sudden he had a great idea. mAybe she was in the Underworld. It made sense why Zeus wouldn’t tell him.
Gaius’ mom was very worried while he was travelling, because she had no idea where he was. His dad was just sad because he didn’t have a helper while he was working in the field. And his school master was very mad that he hadn’t been

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