Links to Classic Persephone Tales

If you'd like to see the story of Persephone in its classic form, there's no better place to start than the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Here are links to two different translations, so you can see which you prefer.

• The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, translated by Gregory Nagy. On Diotima, Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World. http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/demeter.shtml
• Hymn to Demeter, translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, published 1914, Loeb Classical Library. http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/demeter.htm.

Some great resources on ancient Greece:

• Perseus Digital Library http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
• Internet Sacred Text Archive http://sacred-texts.com/cla/index.htm

Links for Writers

• The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI).
• Greenwillow Books is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Visit http://harperteen.com/, http://harpercollins.com/ and the Greenwillow blog. And here is Greenwillow's Facebook page.