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Persephone

Basic Story: Hades springs out of the earth and captures Persephone, dragging her off to be his queen in the Underworld; her dad Zeus told him it was okay to take her as his bride, and Hades took him a bit literally. Hades was also her own uncle, which didn't make this exactly a myth of good family mental health. Her distraught mother Demeter searches for her and stops all foods from growing until she is returned. Even Zeus has to give in and help work out a deal - Persephone stays one-third of the year with Hades, one-third of the year serving as a handmaiden to Zeus, and one-third with her mother Demeter- ... an interesting ancient balancing of family, spouse, and career.

Interesting Fact: Persephone is also sometimes known just as Kore, or the Maiden. She was sometimes called "the maiden of the beautiful ankles". While most sources indicate Persephone was not happy to be "married" by Hades, others assert that she ate the pomegranate seed (or seeds) deliberately, as a way of breaking free from Mom, and that she was actually content with the final arrangement.

2006-08-23 08:05:21 · answer #1 · answered by myspacewolf 2 · 1 1

Persephone is the Greek Goddess of the underworld and mistress of the dead (also known as Kore). She is the daughter of the Goddess Demeter. As she was playing one day (with Artemis and Athena, among others), Hades appeared and abducted her to the underworld. (Hades ruled the underworld which was the land of the dead). Demeter put a curse on the land so that no tree would grow until Persephone was returned. Hades released her, but not until after she had taken seeds from a pomegranate. Because she had eaten of the death, she must return to the underworld for a period every year.

2016-03-27 02:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Proserpine and Pluto are the *Roman* underworld rulers.

In Greek mythology, it's Hades and his part-time wife Persephone. Sometimes Persephone is merely called Kore, girl or maiden. Persephone is strongly identified with her mother, Demeter (Ceres in the Roman pantheon.) Apparently, the goddess of the harvest and growing crops and agriculture and all also felt a duty to guide souls after they died. Demeter's posse includes Persephone, Dionysus, and Triptolemus, and they ride around in a wagon teaching agriculture when they're not all scattered in the wintertime doing their various things.

2006-08-24 11:05:34 · answer #3 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 0 0

The Greek goddess of the underworld is Persephone.

2006-08-23 08:04:13 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Hades-God of Underworld
Persephone-his wife

There's not really a goddess of the Underworld in Greek Myth.

2006-08-23 08:24:02 · answer #5 · answered by graytrees 3 · 0 0

Persephone

2006-08-26 06:58:53 · answer #6 · answered by x040493t 3 · 0 0

Persephone

2006-08-23 08:52:31 · answer #7 · answered by Solstice 3 · 0 0

Persephone

2006-08-23 08:04:56 · answer #8 · answered by kawaii_nyc 4 · 0 0

Persephone

2006-08-23 08:03:43 · answer #9 · answered by faorie_arcana 2 · 0 0

The goddess Persephone who spends half the year in the underworld with Hades, and became his wife, because she ate six promegranate seeds. But that's as close as it gets.

2006-08-23 08:10:01 · answer #10 · answered by Cassie 3 · 1 0

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