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Persephone (Proserpina)

In Greek mythology, Persephone was the queen of the Underworld. Her Roman equivalent was Proserpina. She was a goddess of vegetation.

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What fundamental question about life does the myth Demeter and Persephone seek to answer?

the seasons; like when persephone is in the underworld demeter stops doing her job and get sad, this means that harvest is barren and there is nothing but in the spring persephone is comig back to her mother and demeter becomes happy, also in the summer

What is the moral of the story of Demeter and Persephone?

Demeter is the Greek goddess of agriculture. Persephone is supposed to be her daughter. According to the Greek myth, Hades wanted to marry Persephone and take her to the underworld, making her the Goddess of the underworld. This caused Demeter such agony that she let the world start to die off. Zeus couldn't take the world being so dead, and he sent Hermes to retrieve Persephone. Hades, before releasing her, tricked her into eating 6 pomegranate seeds which forced her to return to the underworld for 6 months out of every year. While Demeter and Persephone are together the world flourishes, while they are apart, Demeter lets everything die.

Why are Hades and Persephone married if they are uncle and niece?

Gods have a tendency to marry other Gods, and when the only Gods are family.. you marry what is available.

Persephone is incredibly beautiful, and Hades fell in love with her. At first she disliked him greatly, but I do believe after some time she came to love him.

How long did Persephone have to stay in the Underworld after she ate the seeds?

Persephone stays in the Underworld for half of the year (six months) and is allowed to return to Olympus for the other half.

Was Persephone involved in any war?

No: but all who die - in war or otherwise - come to dwell in the Underworld, where Queen Persephone and King Hades rule.

The time of year when Persephone is in the underworld?

The goddess Persephone is in the Underworld with the god Hades for half of the year; the seasons Autumn (Fall) and Winter.

How did Persephone get her name?

Source from Wikipedia:

It can be derived from "φέρειν φόνον", pherein phonon, "to bring (or cause) death".

What did the myth of Demeter getting her daughter back for half of the year explain?

Since Demeter's daughter Persephone, was the Goddess of Spring, it explains the seasons. Specifically, when her 6 month stint in Hades is up, Persephone comes to Earth and brings spring all over, and when she goes back, it becomes winter.

When does the Persephone myth take place?

it really took place in a sort of meadow and the underworld. you could see 2 videos about persephone in www.wingedsandals.com click on story time and the 2 videos are Orpheus and the Underworld, and Demeter and Persephone. KH4696 ANSWERED KEEEP ROCKING

Where did the goddess Persephone live with Demeter before her abduction?

Different people report different places... The Sicilians believed it was Enna, the Cretans thought it was Crete, the Eleusinians believe Boeotia and I've also read Athens, Eleusis and Lerna.

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How do you tell the story of Persephone in cartoon form?

You could create a comic with drawings representing Greek Gods and Goddesses and the characters following a version of the story.

Was Persephone the goddess of spring a virgin goddess?

yes Persephone from the Greek myths is tittled as the Queen of the underworld because she ate the pomegranate making her hades Goddess for life, she is also the Goddess of spring because her mother is Demeter the goddess of fertility, grain, and agriculture.

Who is the goddess of strife?

Eris (Greek ????, "Strife") is the Greek goddess of strife, discord, contention and rivalry, her name being translated into Latin as Discordia, -ae, I-f. Her Greek opposite is Harmonia, whose Latin counterpart is Concordia. Homer equated her with the war-goddess Enyo. Eris, the solar system's largest known dwarf planet, is named after the goddess.

How does the myth of Demeter and Persephone explain the change of the seasons?

The aciant Greek explaind th seasons changes by the goddess Persephonie (goddess of the seasons and the wife of death "Hades")

It is said in mythology that Persephonie use to live in Mt. Olympus with the other main god, but one day Hadas (god of death) came to visit his fellow gods at Mt. Olympus. When he kidnapped Persephonie and toke her to his relm to be his wife. When Zeus found out that his own brother kidnapped his duaghter to be his wife, he became furous. But Zeus coulden't bring his duaghter back to Mt. Olympus but made a deal withhis brother Hades that; Six mouths Persephonie will stay with her new hosband and six mounths she will return to her home land. Hades agreed. This cycle of six months is, when Persephonie goes to her home land it's the time of the Spring Exquinox that brings spring, when Persephonie goes back to her hosband is the time OS Autumn Exquinox that brings Autumn.

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