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Persephone. Greek goddess Persephone.

Etext of The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles by Padraic Colum

How Persephone came to divide her time between the Underworld and the Land of Light.

Frieze Relief of Demeter and Persephone Consecrating Triptolemus

Bas-relief found at Eleusis in 1859 of Demeter and Persephone consecrating Triptolemus, from A Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1901).

Queen of the Underworld, wife of Hades

The Thesmophoria was an ancient fertility festival for women commemorating the loss of Demeter's daughter Persephone to Hades

Myths and Legends - The Abduction of Persephone.

Short weekly quiz on Demeter

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