In ancient times it was not; in modern times it's because it is a underground animal living in darkness, as the realm of the dead is sometimes imagined to be.
Persephone is associated with Pomegranates. I'm not sure about the rest though.
The pomegranate.
The spring. It is also said that the bat is her animal.
Both the pomograntet and the asphodel have been associated with Persephone as her symbols.
The dead in his Underworld, and his wife Persephone.
It depends on what time of the year these months are during. Winter and Autumn are associated with the Underworld, while Spring and Summer are associated with Persephone returned to Earth.
In The Odyssey, Persephone did not play a direct role as she is a character from Greek mythology associated with the underworld. She is the queen of the underworld and the wife of Hades. Her story is not specifically mentioned in The Odyssey.
No, Hades was married to Persephone, daughter of the Olympian Goddess Demeter. Hecate is a Goddess with an uncertain mythology, though often associated with Persephone and the Underworld.
Sacred Animal: Bat Sacred Plants: Grain, spring flowers, lilly of the valley, and pomegranetes
Persephone, a figure from Greek mythology, did not attend school in the traditional sense. She was known as the queen of the underworld after being abducted by Hades, the god of the underworld. Persephone was typically associated with fertility, vegetation, and the changing seasons.
Melione is the daughter of Persephone and Zeus/Hades, presided over the propitiations offered to the ghosts of the dead. She wandered the earth at night with a retinue of ghosts, striking fear into the hearts of mankind. She is then further filling a function of her mother, Persephone.
One Persephone's many symbols is the bat because she was abducted by Hades (king of the underworld) as a young innocent maiden and became his consort and err go Queen of the underworld. The bat symbolizes her ascension from light to dark/day to night/purity to corruption as well as her entrapment within a world of darkness Hades brought her into .. etc..... You get the point. =^.^=