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Persephone is the wife of Hades and the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Hades only allows her to visit Demeter in the spring and summer and remain in the Underworld in the fall and winter. She is said to be able to "soften" Hades and make him more merciful. Unlike most minor gods, she sides with Olympus during the war against the Titans.
She is also called Deo (Δηώ Dēṓ). [2] In Greek tradition, Demeter is the second child of the Titans Rhea and Cronus, and sister to Hestia, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Like her other siblings except Zeus, she was swallowed by her father as an infant and rescued by Zeus.
Ancient Greece portal. Myths portal. v. t. e. In ancient Greek religion and mythology, the twelve Olympians are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus. [2] They were called Olympians because ...
In classical mythology, the Cap of Invisibility (Ἅϊδος κυνέη (H)aïdos kyneē in Greek, lit. dog-skin of Hades) is a helmet or cap that can turn the wearer invisible, [ 1 ] also known as the Cap of Hades or Helm of Hades. [ 2 ] Wearers of the cap in Greek myths include Athena, the goddess of wisdom, the messenger god Hermes, and the ...
Persephone or Demeter or Hades Minthe was a Naiad nymph of the Underworld who became a mistress of Hades, the god of the dead, that was turned into mint , either by his wife Persephone (out of anger), Persephone's mother Demeter (avenging her daughter) or alternatively Persephone tore her into pieces, and it was Hades who turned his dead lover ...
In Greek mythology, Erebus (/ ˈɛrəbəs /; [ 1 ] Ancient Greek: Ἔρεβος, romanized:Érebos, lit. '"darkness, gloom"'), [ 2 ] or Erebos, is the personification of darkness. In Hesiod 's Theogony, he is the offspring of Chaos, and the father of Aether and Hemera (Day) by Nyx (Night); in other Greek cosmogonies, he is the father of Aether ...
1.96 m. (Caryatid B) In antiquity, two large Caryatids from the Lesser Propylaea adorned the sanctuary of the Greek goddess of agriculture Demeter at Eleusis in Greece as architectural support taking the place of columns. Following the Christianization of the Roman Empire, one of the Caryatids was dubbed Saint Demetra by the locals and ...
Forestalled in making Demophon immortal, Demeter chose to teach Triptolemus (Demophon's elder brother) the art of agriculture; from him the rest of Greece learned to plant and reap crops. He flew across the land on a dragon -drawn chariot while Demeter and Persephone cared for him and helped him complete his mission of educating the whole of ...