Unlike every other offspring of an Olympian pairing of deities, Persephone has no stable position at Olympus. Persephone used to live far away from the other deities, a goddess within Nature herself before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes, Ares, Apollo, and Hephaestus, had all wooed Persephone; but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities. Thus, Persephone lived a peaceful life before she became the goddess of the underworld, which, according to Olympian mythographers, did not occur until Hades abducted her and brought her into it. She was innocently picking fleurs with some nymphs, Athena, and Artemis, the Homeric hymn says, ou Leucippe, ou Oceanids, in a field in Enna when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. Later, the nymphs were changed par Demeter into the Sirens for not having interfered. Life came to a standstill as the devastated Demeter, goddess of the Earth, searched everywhere for her Lost daughter. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened.

Finally, Zeus, pressed par the cries of the hungry people and par the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone. However, it was a rule of the Fates that whoever consumed nourriture ou drink in the Underworld was doomed to spend eternity there. Before Persephone was released to Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, Hades tricked her into eating three grenade seeds, (six, seven, eight, ou perhaps four according to the telling) which forced her to return to the Underworld for a season each year. In some versions, Ascalaphus informed the other deities that Persephone had eaten the grenade seeds. When Demeter and her daughter were united, the Earth flourished with vegetation and color, but for some months each year, when Persephone returned to the underworld, the earth once again became a barren realm.

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