Archaeologists discover mural depicting Hades' abduction of Persephone

The abduction of Zeus's daughter Persephone by Hades, later known as Pluto, is one of Greek mythology's hallmarks. But a mosaic discovered in Greece adds a third figure, the Greek god Hermes, into the mix. When Greece's Culture Ministry first announced the mosaic find on Sunday, the archaeologists suspected that the pebbled mosaic floor may have depicted Philip II, Alexander the Great's father, as Hermes' passenger. But the discovery of Persephone on the mosaic, found in Amphipolis in northern G...