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Persephone and Dionysos. Roman copy after a Greek original of the 4th–3rd century B.C. Marble. Hermitage.. In ancient Greek mythology and religion, Persephone (/ p ər ˈ s ɛ f ə n iː / pər-SEF-ə-nee; Greek: Περσεφόνη, romanized: Persephónē, classical pronunciation: [per.se.pʰó.nɛː]), also called Kore (/ ˈ k ɔːr iː / KOR-ee; Greek: Κόρη, romanized: Kórē, lit.
Through her brother Zeus, she became the mother of Persephone, a fertility goddess and resurrection deity. [3] [4] One of the most notable Homeric Hymns, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, tells the story of Persephone's abduction by Hades and Demeter's search for her. When Hades, the King of the Underworld, wished to make Persephone his wife, he ...
Persephone and Hades ; Perseus and Andromeda ; Philemon and Baucis ; Phyllis and Demophon ; Popocatépetl and Iztaccíhuatl , two volcanoes; Poseidon and Amphitrite ; Proserpina and Pluto ; Pyramus and Thisbe ; Pyrrhus and Andromache ; Rama and Sita ; Sahadeva and Draupadi
Persephone is the daughter of Demeter and her brother Zeus, and becomes the consort of her uncle Hades. Some legends indicate that her father impregnated her and begat Dionysus Zagreus . Other examples include Zeus's relations with the Muse Calliope , Aphrodite (his daughter in some versions) and Nemesis (his daughter in one tradition).
whom revered Persephone bore by the mouth of the Kokytos river upon the sacred bed of Kronian Zeus. In the guise of Plouton Zeus tricked Persephone and through wiley plots bedded her; a two-bodied specter sprang forth from Persephone's fury. This specter drives mortals to madness with her airy apparitions as she appears in weird shapes and ...
Unlike his freely procreating brothers Zeus and Poseidon, Pluto is monogamous, and is rarely said to have children. [36] In Orphic texts, [37] the chthonic nymph Melinoe is the daughter of Persephone by Zeus disguised as Pluto, [38] and the Eumenides ("The Kindly Ones") are the offspring of Persephone and Zeus Chthonios, often identified as ...
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Arion is mentioned as early as in the Iliad of Homer, where he is described as the "swift horse of Adrastus, that was of heavenly stock." [10] A scholiast on this line of the Iliad explains that Arion was the offspring of Poseidon, who in the form of a horse, mated with Fury (Ἐρινύος) by the fountain Tilphousa in Boeotia.