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...

type of freestanding statue of a maiden—the female counterpart of the kouros, or standing youth—that appeared with the beginning of Greek monumental sculpture in about 660 &BC; and remained to the end of the Archaic period in about 500...

In Greek mythology, daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She was gathering flowers when she was seized by Hades, who carried her off to the underworld to make her his wife. On learning of the abduction, Demeter was so distraught that she allowed barrenness...

(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...

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...