Persephone Christiana Conte
Persephone Daughter of Zeus and Demeter (goddess of the corn, grain, and harvest) Was often called Kore (the maiden), Kore Soteira (the savior maiden), Hagne (the pure), Aristi Cthonia (the best cthonic), and Despoina (the mistress of the house)
Facts about Persephone Roman Name: Proserpina/Proserpine Role: Queen of the Underworld/goddess of spring Husband: Hades Symbols: Pomegrante, wearth of flowers, torch, and a bat
The First Story of Persephone In this story, Persephone was a lovely girl who attracted many gods but her mother has such an obsessive love for her daughter that she kept all men away from her. Hades fell in love with Persephone and wanted to marry her. Demeter was furious at this and said this will never happen. Hades was so heartbroken that he decided to take the girl anyways to the underworld. One day Persephone ate the seeds of a pomegrante fruit and when she returned to her mother, she started to miss life in the underworld. This became a problem for Demeter so in order to solve this Zeus said that Persephone would spend half her time in the Underworld with Hades and half of her time with Demeter on Olympus, but all the plants started to die and people did not have enough food when Persephone was in the underworld and that started the season of winter for every six months each year.
The Second Story of Persephone In this story, Persephone and Aphrodite don t get along. Aphrodite falls in love with the young god Adonis (god of beauty and desire) but when Adonis dies, Aphrodite gives him to Persephone for safe keeping, but soon Persephone falls in love with Adonis too. When Aphrodite returns for him, Persephone refuses to give him up. So again, Zeus must intervene to solve this problem. Zeus tells them that they must share him for six months out of the year. Aphrodite gets summer and spring and Persephone gets fall and winter.
Why were the Pomegrante seeds so important? This was the food of the Underworld Eating this meant you had to return to the Underworld
Symbols in the first story The return of Persephone = the coming of spring Persephone in the Underworld = the winter Persephone missing = famine/no life in plants
Why is Persephone important to Greek Mythology? Persephone is important to greek mythology because her stories tell how the seasons came to be. When she got abducted by Hades and had to live in the underworld, famine and no life was spread across the crops (which would be the beginning of winter), but when she returned the crops began to have life and people got food (which would be the beginning of spring).
Video on Persephone Before this video begins, I would like to say a few things about it. It s a very cheesy video but it does give a good rendition of the story except one fact is wrong. Persephone did not eat only 4 pomegrante seeds, she ate 6. So keep that in mind when you watch the video.
How does this story relate to today? What I found interesting is that this story relates to today because so many people have celebrated the day of this story. There would be a huge celebration based around the day Persephone picked flowers and her marriage to Hades. This festival is called the thesmophoria and it usually happens in Sicily, southern Italy, Mantinea, Sparta, Megalopolis, and Locri Epizephyrii.
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