Greek goddess help?

Question

I'm doing a 2-pg paper on Persephone. does anyone have any good websites about Persephone? with at least two stories about her? and I don't mean some crappy site with Greek god worshippers...I need a site that actually helps.


1.Greek goddess...not Roman
2. Persephone is who my paper is about
3. a site that actually helps me.....no worshipping, porn, or junk like that!
4. I've already been to pantheon.org
5. There needs to be at least 2 stories or tales about Persephone on the site


thanks! :D

btw, NO WIKIPEDIA! I HATE wikipedia. Wikipedia=CRAP!


no offense wikipedians

Thank you! I have what I need!

THANKS AGAIN!

Answer 1

http://www.goddessgift.com/goddess-myths/greek_goddess_persephone.htm,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone,

http://www.covenofthegoddess.com/goddesspersephone.htm,

http://www.mythicarts.com/writing/Persephone.htm

Hope these help!!!

Answer 2

Many of these are right. And honestly, see if you can check out the book, Goddesses and Heroines. Also, look up myths about the Seasons. And for FYI, Persephone is the High Priestess in the Major Arcana of the Tarot. If you look at the RiderWaite Tarot deck,there is a stairway, two pillars, flowers and pomegrants. These are symbols, and this may give you some extra points.

Answer 3

PERSEPHONE was the goddess queen of the underworld, wife of the god Haides. She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother Demeter in the Eleusinian Mysteries. This agricultural-based cult promised its initiates passage to a blessed afterlife.
Persephone was titled Kore (the Maiden) as the goddess of spring's bounty. Once, when she was playing in a flowery meadow with her Nymph companions, Kore was seized by Haides and carried off to the underworld to be his bride. Her mother Demeter despaired at her dissappearance and searched for her the throughout the world accompanied by the goddess Hekate bearing torches. When she learned that Zeus had conspired in her daughter's abduction she was furious, and refused to let the earth fruit until Persephone was returned. Zeus consented, but because the girl had tasted of the food of Haides - a handful of pomegranate seeds - she was forced to forever spend a part of the year with her husband in the underworld. Her annual return to the earth in spring was marked by the flowering of the meadows and the sudden growth of the new grain. Her return to the underworld in winter, conversely, saw the dying down of plants and the halting of growth.

The Greek goddess Persephone agreed to hide Adonis, a mortal youth who was Aphrodite's lover, from Aphrodite's suspicious husband. But upon seeing the beautiful Adonis, Persephone, receptive goddess that she was, also fell for his charms and refused to give him back to Aphrodite. Eventually, Zeus had to step in to settle the argument. He ruled that Adonis should spend a third of the year with each of the goddesses, Persephone and Aphrodite, and be left to his own pursuits the remainder of the year. Unfortunately, Adonis chose to spend his free time hunting and was killed in a hunting accident a few years later.

The Greek goddess Persephone also helped Heracles (Hercules), loaning him Cerberus, the ferocious three-headed dog that guarded the entrance of the underworld, so that he could complete the Twelve Labors he'd been assigned to make retribution for the death of his wife. The goddess Persephone was also at home in the underworld when Odysseus (Ulysses) arrived. She rewarded him with a legendary tour of the souls of women of great renown.

Answer 4

In Greek mythology, Persephone (Greek Περσεφόνη, Persephónē) was the queen of the Underworld, the Kore (Cora) or young maiden, and the daughter of Demeter and Zeus.
Persephone is her name in the Ionic Greek of epic literature. In other dialects she was known under various other names: Persephassa, Persephatta, or simply Kore ("daughter", when worshipped in the context of Demeter and Kore). The Romans first heard of her from the Aeolian and Dorian cities of Magna Graecia, who use the dialectal variant Proserpina.
Hence, in Roman mythology she was called Proserpina, and as a revived Roman Proserpina she became an emblematic figure of the Renaissance.
In Greek art, Persephone/Kore is often portrayed robed, carrying a sheaf of grain, and smiling demurely with the "Archaic smile" of the Kore of Antenor (illustration, right).
The figure of Persephone is a well-known one today. Her story has great emotional power: an innocent maiden; a mother's grief at the abduction and the return of her daughter. It is also cited frequently as a paradigm of myths that explain natural processes, with the descent and return of the goddess bringing about the change of seasons.
In a text ascribed to Empedocles describing a correspondce between the gods and the classical elements, the name Nestis is often believed to be referring to Persephone. "Now hear the fourfold roots of everything: Enlivining Hera, Hades, shining Zeus. And Nestis, moistening mortal springs with tears".
But the Greeks knew another face of Persephone as well. She was also the terrible Queen of the dead, whose name was not safe to speak aloud, who was named simply "The Maiden". In The Odyssey, when Odysseus goes to the Underworld, he refers to her as the Iron Queen. Her central myth, for all of its emotional familiarity, was also the tacit context of the secret initiatory mystery rites of regeneration at Eleusis, which promised immortality to their awe-struck participants — an immortality in her world beneath the soil, feasting with the heroes beneath her dread gaze (Kerenyi 1960, 1967).

Answer 5

Aphrodite and Athena have nothing to do with Samhain. I'm interested in knowing why you would choose these Goddesses. So if it were me? Hecate would be a good choice as would Persephone. Demeter too as She is Persephone's mother.

Answer 6

Try this site: http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html

It has 3 different sections about different types of myths she's been involved with (other than the Hades/Demeter myth). Most of them involve love affairs but they are all variations. Good luck!

Answer 7

type persephone in google and youll get plenty of hits.
id suggest:
http://www.carlos.emory.edu/ODYSSEY/GREECE/perseph.html
http://www.theoi.com/Khthonios/Persephone.html
http://www.mythicarts.com/writing/Persephone.htm
fyi: her most famous story is the kidnapping one. the only other story with her as an important character that i can think of is the story of venus and adonis. other then that there are very few stories with her in it as a major character.

Answer 8

A fantastic website that I often use is The Encyclopedia Mythica.

Answer 9

here is 2 website you might try good luck.

Answer 10

try this site its basic and easy to understand.

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/grecoromanmyth1/g/persephone.htm

Answer 11

have you tried http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persephone