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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.
Sarcophagus with the abduction of Persephone. Walters Art Museum. Baltimore, Maryland. Persephone's abduction by Hades [f] is mentioned briefly in Hesiod's Theogony, [39] and is told in considerable detail in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter. Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades, who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to abduct her as her ...
Hades obtained his wife and queen, Persephone, through abduction at the behest of Zeus. [24] This myth is the most important one Hades takes part in; [ 25 ] it also connected the Eleusinian Mysteries with the Olympian pantheon, particularly as represented in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter , which is the oldest story of the abduction, most likely ...
Allison Russell, the Grammy-winning Americana artist, is coming back up from the underground. On Sunday night, she finishes up a 15-week run in Broadway’s “Hadestown,” which has left her ...
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.
Side A from an Attic red-figure bell-krater, c. 440–430 BC (Louvre, Paris). Two Athenians, Theseus and Pirithous, thought that since they were sons of gods, they should have divine wives; they thus pledged to help each other abduct two daughters of Zeus. Theseus chose Helen, and Pirithous vowed to marry Persephone, the wife of Hades.
Meanwhile, in Ovid's tale of Persephone's abduction by Hades, the abduction is initiated by Aphrodite and Eros; Aphrodite commands Eros to make Hades fall in love with his niece, so that their domain can reach the Underworld. Eros has to use his strongest possible arrow to make Hades's stern heart melt. [37]
Monroe wore the famous white dress in the 1955 film The Seven Year Itch, directed by Billy Wilder.The scene was filmed early in the morning on Sept. 15, 1954, on the corner of Lexington Avenue and ...