god
Persephone
also: Περσεφόνη, Περσεφόνεια, Kore, Κόρη, the Maiden
Daughter of Demeter and Zeus, abducted by Hades to be queen of the dead. Having tasted a pomegranate seed in the underworld, she must spend a third of each year below the earth and two-thirds with her mother.
Reading notes
- The Homeric Hymns §2.54 Persephone
Daughter of Demeter and Zeus, abducted by Hades to be queen of the dead. Having tasted a pomegranate seed in the underworld, she must spend a third of each year below the earth and two-thirds with her mother.
- The Odyssey §10.487 dread Persephone
Queen of the dead, whose house Circe sends Odysseus to before he may go home. She alone let the seer Teiresias keep his wits after death, and Odysseus fears she will send the Gorgon's head up at him.