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persephone's Usage Examples:

As a chthonian divinity she is accompanied by a snake; the myrtle, asphodel and narcissus (which Persephone was gathering when carried off by Hades) also are sacred to her.

According to the Thelpusan story, Demeter, during her wanderings in search of Persephone, changed herself into a mare to avoid the persecution of Poseidon.

According to this view, the prototypes of Demeter and Persephone are the corn-mother and harvest maiden of northern Europe, the corn-fetishes of the field (Frazer, Golden Bough, 2nd ed., ii.

Orpheus went down to the lower world and by his music softened the heart of Pluto and Persephone, who allowed Eurydice to return with him to earth.

Preller, Demeter and Persephone (1837); P. R.

The central fact of her cult was the story of her daughter Persephone (Proserpine), a favourite subject in classical poetry.

Here were represented Isis and Serapis, Helios, the Mother of the Gods, the Fates, Demeter and Persephone; but no trace of these temples remains.

With this may be compared the festivals of Adonis and Osiris and the myth of Persephone.

Foerster, Der Raub and die Riickkehr der Persephone (1874); A.

Preller, Demeter and Persephone (1837); R.

persephone's Meaning':

(Greek mythology