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  2. File:Large relief, marble, torso, Hades and Persephone, 100 ...

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    ISO speed rating: 400: Date and time of data generation: 12:59, 10 July 2008: Lens focal length: 30 mm: User comments: Torzo velkého mramorového reliéfu. Zobrazuje eleúsinský mýtus o Triptolemovi. Reliéf věnoval eleúsinským bohům kněz Lakrateidés a jeho rodina, 100-90 před n. l. Archeologické muzeum v Eleusině, 5079.

  3. Greek underworld - Wikipedia

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    Persephone was abducted by Hades, who desired a wife. When Persephone was gathering flowers, she was entranced by a narcissus flower planted by Gaia (to lure her to the underworld as a favor to Hades), and when she picked it the earth suddenly opened up. [64] Hades, appearing in a golden chariot, seduced and carried Persephone into the underworld.

  4. Zagreus - Wikipedia

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    Zagreus is the protagonist of the 2020 video game Hades. [92] In the game, Zagreus is the son of Hades and is attempting to escape the underworld to find his mother Persephone, who disappeared before his time, and learn why she left. [93]

  5. Eleusinian Mysteries - Wikipedia

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    A votive plaque known as the Ninnion Tablet depicting elements of the Eleusinian Mysteries, discovered in the sanctuary at Eleusis (mid-4th century BC). The Eleusinian Mysteries (Greek: Ἐλευσίνια Μυστήρια, romanized: Eleusínia Mystḗria) were initiations held every year for the cult of Demeter and Persephone based at the Panhellenic Sanctuary of Eleusis in ancient Greece.

  6. File:Large relief, marble, torso, Hades and Persephone, 100 ...

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    ISO speed rating: 400: Date and time of data generation: 12:58, 10 July 2008: Lens focal length: 17 mm: User comments: Torzo velkého mramorového reliéfu. Zobrazuje eleúsinský mýtus o Triptolemovi. Reliéf věnoval eleúsinským bohům kněz Lakrateidés a jeho rodina, 100-90 před n. l. Archeologické muzeum v Eleusině, 5079.

  7. Necromanteion of Acheron - Wikipedia

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    The Nekromanteion (Greek: Νεκρομαντεῖον) was an ancient Greek temple of necromancy devoted to Hades and Persephone. According to tradition, it was located on the banks of the Acheron river in Epirus, near the ancient city of Ephyra. This site was believed by devotees to be the door to Hades, the realm of the dead.

  8. Pluto (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Persephone and Pluto [141] or Hades [142] on a pinax from Locri The name Plouton is first used in Greek literature by Athenian playwrights . [ 58 ] In Aristophanes ' comedy The Frogs ( Batrachoi , 405 BC), in which "the Eleusinian colouring is in fact so pervasive," [ 143 ] the ruler of the underworld is one of the characters, under the name of ...

  9. Rape of Persephone - Wikipedia

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    The Rape of Persephone, or Abduction of Persephone, is a classical mythological subject in Western art, depicting the abduction of Persephone by Hades.In this context, the word Rape refers to the traditional translation of the Latin raptus ('seized' or 'carried off') which refers to bride kidnapping rather than the potential ensuing sexual violence.