When Persephone eats the pomegranate seeds in the underworld, she is bound to Hades and must return to him each year, leading to the cyclical nature of the seasons. This act symbolizes the cycle of life and death, as her time in the underworld corresponds with winter, while her return to the surface signifies spring and renewal. The consumption of the seeds also highlights themes of choice, consequence, and the interplay between fertility and desolation in mythology.
While in Hades she ate six seeds from a pomegranate, condemning her to live in the underworld for six months of the year. Eating in the underworld condemns one to stay there.Because she ate 7 or 8 pomegranate seeds (I think the number varies with each different version of the story)
Most of the Greek myths are about Zeus but the most common one is Pandoras Box,Persephone and the Pomegranate seeds,Hercules and Persius.
She had eaten 6 pomegranate seeds after being kidnapped by Hades and if you eat food in the Land of the Dead, you must remain there. Therefore Persephone must remain in the underworld for 6 months of the year.
Hades didn't force Persephone to marry him. Zeus (Persephone's Father) promised her hand in marriage to Hades, but he neglected to inform both Persephone and Demeter (Persephone's Mother) of this. Hades came to claim his bride, which turned into an abduction because Persephone didn't know about it. She was very mad and upset at him for a very long time, but I do believe that she eventually warmed up to him (since due to the eating of pomegranate seeds she spends half of the year with him), and I think she did marry him of her own accord.
She was abducted from her mother by Hades. She longed to return from the underworld. When she was about to leave she was offered and ate a pomegranate (or some pomegranate seeds). This meant that the underworld was her home, so she could not return. In the end a compromise was reached, where she stayed half the year in the underworld and half the year with her mother.
Persephone, after eating the pomegranate seeds had to spend half the year in the Underworld and so became Queen as the wife of Hades, King of the Underworld.
She marries Hades and becomes Queen of the Underworld.
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Persephone was taken to the Underworld by Hades. He then tricked her into eating 6 pomegranate seeds which is why she now lives there for 6 months a year.
She ate six pomegranate seeds. That is why pomegranates are known as the fruit of the dead.
Hades gave Persephone pomegranate seeds to eat.
Before she left Hades, Hades gave her three pomegranate seeds. when persephone left hades, she accidentally ate 7 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.
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Six pomegranate seeds.
Pomegranate seeds, the food of the underworld, and, having eaten even one seed, Persephone had to stay in the underworld for (depending on the story) three (or six) months every year.