Demeter was portrayed fighting the Giants in vase paintings, where she was depicted wielding a spear and torch or a sword. This was undoubtedly the golden sword described in the Homeric Hymn to ...

or the groom leading the bride away while her mother carries a torch. These have been interpreted as echoes of Persephone’s abduction, the separation of mother and daughter, and Demeter’s ...

The birds won’t sing, the buds stay closed, Until she dances by, A crown of flowers upon her head, Her torch lights up the sky.

Javier Botet as Nosferatu in The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023) Photo: Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment OK, let’s get this part out of the way: Vampires, as depicted in Stoker’s ...

From a handful of pages by Bram Stoker comes The Last Voyage of the Demeter, a moody hunt-and-kill chronicle of Count Dracula’s passage from Transylvania to England. Director André Øvredal ...