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The Anthesphoria was one of the religious festivals held in Ancient Greece in honor of Persephone's return from the Underworld. [1] According to mythological tradition, Persephone's husband, Hades , tricked her into eating four pomegranate seeds when Zeus ordered him to let her return to her mother after he had kidnapped her.
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.
The Anthophorula persephone holotype is a female with a total length of 6.1 millimetres (0.24 in) and a forewing length of 4.6 millimetres (0.18 in). The overall coloration of A. persephone is a mainly a dark tone, likely black, though the color does lighten to a dark brown on the legs and finally to a lighter brown on the spurs and claws of the legs.
In the video game BioShock 2, Persephone is the name given to the prison facility that spans over two levels, Inner Persephone and Outer Persephone. Persephone is the final boss and the main antagonist of the 2008 video game God of War: Chains of Olympus. In the game, she seeks vengeance against the Olympians for forcefully marrying her off to ...
Persephone, the daughter of Admiral Lockwood, and object of Commander Kydd's affections, in the book The Admiral's Daughter; Persephone, a Fairy character who sells upgrades in the Activision computer game Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure; Persephone "Persie" Towyn, sister of Lady Agnes Holland in the BBC TV Series Upstairs Downstairs
A pair of 2s is beaten by 2 consecutive quartets or a double sequence of 5+ pairs A triplet of 2 s is beaten by 3 consecutive quartets or a double sequence of 7+ pairs Optionally, the game may be played with trading : after the deal and before the initial lead, any 2 players may exchange any equal number of cards with each other.
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam (lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011.
Geophilus persephones is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae discovered in 1999. [1] [2] This species is named after Persephone, the queen of the underworld in Greek mythology, [3] and found in caves in the Gouffre de la Pierre Saint-Martin.