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Persephone's year is divided between Earth/Olympus and the Underworld.
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∙ 11y agoShe spends 6 months in the Underworld. The other 6 months, she spends in Olympus or Earth.
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Why does Demeter have to compromise Persephone?
Demeter had to compromise with allowing Persephone to spend part of the year in the Underworld with Hades because of the agreement struck between Hades and Zeus. This compromise was the result of Persephone eating six pomegranate seeds in the Underworld, which bound her to spend a portion of each year there.
Why was Persephone punished?
Persephone was not punished. She ate the food of the Underworld, so had to spend part of a year therein with her husband Hades.
What would happen to Persephone is she ate anything in the undererworld?
She would have to spend a part of the year in the Underworld.
What would happen to peresephone if she ate in the underworld?
Persephone would have to spend a part of the year in the Underworld with Hades.
Why must persephone return to the underworld for part of each year?
Because while in the Underworld during her first stay with Hades she ate some pomegranate seeds. Eating them bound her to the Underworld, and she must return to it for half of the year, and is able to be with her mother and the living for the other half of the year.
Why did Persephone eat the pomegranate seeds?
Persephone refused to eat anything when she was first taken to the Underworld, out of protest. But when she was offered the pomegranate seeds she was very hungry. She only a few, but in eating them it tied her to the Underworld, forcing her to return for half of the year.
What did the Greeks learned from the myth of Persephone?
Persephone was carried off by Hades and made queen of the underworld. Demeter, vainly seeking her, refused to let the earth produce its fruits until her daughter was restored to her, but because Persephone had eaten some pomegranate seeds in the other world, she was obliged to spend part of every year there. Her story symbolizes the return of spring and the life and growth of grain.
What part does the narcissus play in Persephone's story?
It was among the flowers that Persephone stood in a field of before she was taken by Hades.
What was Persephone the Goddess of spring what was her purpose of Greek mythology?
To spend part of the year on Earth, while plants and animals grow - and then return to the Underworld and rule beside Hades during the winter and autumn season.
What did Persephone have to do with pomegranate seeds and how does this explain the seasons winter and summer?
Persephone ate of the pomegranate in the Underworld and thus had to stay in the Underworld for part of each year - during winder she was with Hades; during spring, summer and autumn she resided above the earth with her mother Demeter.
Was Hecate ever a part of a myth?
Hecate was a part in the myth of Persephone, Demeter, and Hades. She helped Demeter to find her daughter. After the mother-daughter reunion became she Persephone's minister and companion in Hades.
What did Persephone eat that made her have to return to the underworld for part of the year?
The pomegranate.
