Who was Persephone and why did she eat the pomegranate?

Answer 1

Persephone was the daughter of the goddess, Demeter, and the god, Zeus. She was abducted by Hades, god of the Underworld, as he wanted to make her Queen of the Underworld.

During her time in the Underworld, she was tricked by Hades and ate four pomegranate seeds. After she returned home, under the agreement between Zeus and Hades, she was forced to return to the Underworld four months out of the year.

Answer 2

Persephone was a goddess of planting seeds and making nature grow. Then she had been abducted by Hades and brought into the underworld. While she was away, the nature died, nothing grew.

The other gods and goddesses found out where she was and forced Hades to bring her back to the world. Before she was released, Hades gave her some pomegranate seeds, which she ate. Those were magic pomegranate seeds and she was cursed that way to come back to the underworld for a whole season every year.

It is a story that explains the seasons, but also it is really interesting to know that in the medicine book written by Hippocrates, the pomegranate is considered as a way to reduce fertility, some kind of natural birth control.

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Answer 3

Persephone was a goddess of planting seeds and making nature grow. Then she had been abducted by Hades and brought into the underworld. While she was away, the nature died, nothing grew.

The other gods and goddesses found out where she was and forced Hades to bring her back to the world. Before she was released, Hades gave her some pomegranate seeds, which she ate. Those were magic pomegranate seeds and she was cursed that way to come back to the underworld for a whole season every year.

It is a story that explains the seasons, but also it is really interesting to know that in the medicine book written by Hippocrates, the pomegranate is considered as a way to reduce fertility, some kind of natural Birth Control
Persephone is a Goddess of life and earth, also a Goddess of death and the Queen of the Underworld. She is Hades wife.
She ate six pomegranate seeds when she was taken to the Underworld by Hades to insure that she would return for six months of the year.

Answer 4

Persephone is the Queen of the Underworld, Hades wife, and the daughter of Demeter and Zeus.

She ate six pomegranate seeds during her first visit to the Underworld after being abducted by Hades. Which forces her to remain in the underworld for six months of the year.

Answer 5

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter. Hades fell in love with her and abducted her to the underworld, where he guarded her jealously. Demeter implored to Zeus to save their daughter, and he bade that Hades must release Persephone, but only if she had taken no food at all while in the underworld. Famished from weeks of no eating, the starved Persephone ate 6 pomegranate seeds, which caused Zeus to decree that she must spend six months of the year by Hades side, and the other 6 she was free to walk the surface.

This is the personification of the seasons.

Answer 6

Hades gave it to her. - Thank you very much! Pomegranates taste good.
She did not think it was important.

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Answer 8

in the Greek myth she was captures by hades and he made her eat seeds so she would have to come back

Answer 9

Well she ate 6 seeds and was deemed to live in Hell for six months of the year and six months on earth.