(also Persephassa; in Latin Proserpina) In Greek myth, the daughter of → Zeus, and wife of → Hades, who abducted her as a small girl (hence her name of Kore). Thereafter, she spends onethird of the year in the underworld (during this time...

DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE. In the Homeric epics, no link is established between the two goddesses Demeter and Persephone, to whom later sources attribute a close mythical and ritual relationship, insofar as they are mother and daughter. In the Iliad...

In Greek mythology, Persephone was the Queen of the Underworld, the Kore or young maiden, and the parthenogenic daughter of Demeter—and, in later Classical myths, a daughter of Demeter and Zeus, in the Olympian version she also becomes the consort of...

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In the first version, Persephone is taken from her mother and the goddess of the earth punishes the earth--this is consistent with what we know of human behavior, that human beings take profound satisfaction in doing harm, particularly unconscious harm: we may call...

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Describes the Greek goddess Persephone and explores the myth of how she was taken by Hades to the underworld.